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I wrote this paper a while back. I’ve edited (recently) for clarity and for helping understand some literature on the subject of principal agent problems. I recently wrote a post about applying the principal agent problem to leadership broadly. I wanted to expand upon the literature, and from this, explore more game theory on thisContinue reading “Understanding Principal-Agent Problems”

I should start by noting that I’m a fan of Jonathan Rauch. Last year, I ran an event with him as a keynote speaker to talk about free expression. I haven’t written a personal review, but Kindly Inquisitors is one of the best modern day books I’ve read, and I generally think Rauch plays anContinue reading “The Case For Corruption: Considering Jonathan Rauch’s Treatise on Political Realism”

Yesterday, news broke that my university’s president plans on resigning. Despite being new to the job, having started in 2019, Katsouleas started by outlining a vision for the future of the university. Regardless of whether one thinks Katsouleas’s plans are good ideas, I’d bet other sources of power at the University prevented him from achievingContinue reading “Do Good Leaders Matter? Analyzing leadership through game theory”

Back when I was in high school, I attended a debate camp at Dartmouth. As I roamed the hallway, looking for something thought provoking to my teenage pretentiousness, I came across a few books being given away by a political group on campus. I managed to finagle several of the books, and devoured part ofContinue reading “Considering Skwire’s “No Liberty, No Art: No Art, No Liberty””

For those not familiar, BloggingHeads.tv is a video blog discussion site about political, philosophical, world, and academic events. Started by Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus in 2005, a primary goal of the site was “in one sense an unusual expression of the Internet. Almost all blogs have a dominant ideology and a fairly homogenous commentsContinue reading “A Review of BloggingHeads.TV”

Published by the Daily Campus on January 29, 2021 The goal of economics should be to accurately describe human action. The point of the supply and demand graphs we pick up in ECON 101 is to demonstrate how prices affect consumption. Economics teaches us about the concepts of marginal cost versus marginal benefit and explainsContinue reading “Public Choice should be on every economics syllabus”

Recently, a slew of articles came out as Liz Cheney is expected to be ousted from House GOP leadership, as a result of her defiance from refusing to vote from Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not someone to root for. He’s an out-of-the-closet authoritarian who hopes to grasp power as long as humanly possible. HisContinue reading “Mob Boss V.S. Warmonger: Analyzing the Dethroning of Liz Cheney”

I’d like to thank Professor Kenneth Gouwens for helping me edit this piece I authored a free speech petition ten days ago aimed at protecting student’s rights to free expression at the University of Connecticut, and encouraged only UConn Students and Faculty to sign. We received 139 signatures in 10 days. This was accompanied byContinue reading “Attacks on Free Speech are Undermining UConn’s Commitment to Diversity”

Published at the AHA Foundation’s Website on March 24, 2021 Isadore Johnson is a free speech activist. A fellow of AHA Foundation’s campus program, Critical Thinking Unit, he believes that progression of thought is at stake in the ongoing battle to restrict free speech throughout America—especially on college campuses. That’s why early this year IsadoreContinue reading “CTU Fellow Fights for Broader Free Speech Protection at UConn and Other Universities”

Published in the Federalist July 20, 2020 https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/20/did-steven-pinker-just-cancel-cancel-culture/ Steven Pinker, the mild-mannered Harvard linguist, is the latest target of the online leftist mob. Known for advancing evolutionary psychology, the computational theory of mind, and more recently, principles of the Enlightenment, he has remained a thorn in the side of those who want the university toContinue reading “Did Steven Pinker Just Cancel Cancel Culture?”