Georgetown University
Jason Brennan is Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University's Business School. He's the author of several books, including The Ethics of Voting and Against Democracy.
The presidential election and the Founding Fathers Whatever happens next Tuesday, this year's election won't really be over until the December 19 when the Electoral College will get together. Like it or not, its 538 voters could counteract tens of millions of Democrats and Republicans — as they did when George W. Bush was elected 16 years ago. It's either the wisdom or the folly of the Founding Fathers — one of the compromises in the Constitution. We hear how the Electoral College works and how it could make for real uncertainty in the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Is Voting Your Heart Immoral and Unethical? Many Democrats are still feeling "The Bern," and there are options to Hillary Clinton: Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Democrats voting for them would be "voting their conscience," rather than picking Clinton as the lesser of two evils. Is that really as moral a choice as it sounds? Jason Brennan is a philosopher at Georgetown University and author of The Ethics of Voting .
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?