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The selection process at the best schools is presently designed not to find the best minds but rather to find minds already shaped to the culture and ideology the universities regard as being able to benefit from their education.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Bryan Caplan has proposed a national “Voter Achievement Exam.” Each year (or maybe before an election) the government offers a voluntary test which covers basic political information and basic social scientific matters. Citizens who take the exam get a cash prize, pays a thousand dollars for getting 90–100 percent of the questions right, five hundr
... See moreJason Brennan • Against Democracy: New Preface
exigencies
Arthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Are expectations of longer-term benefits reasonable?
Felix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
A board of three is ideal.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Americans want courts to protect minorities and defend liberties, and to defer to elected officials. We want arobust political life and one that is just.
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Don’t Disrupt
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner