The paper sketches an argument for a classical liberal view of the "natural rights" of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness, albeit one based in a semi-"rule-utilitarian" approach, where the defense is based in a "hypothetical imperative" and circumscribed by what social science...

Social choice analysis has demonstrated that it is possible that the result of a democratic process may not be what a majority of the decision-makers wanted. An election inversion (where there is a discrepancy between what a majority wanted and the result) was clearly visible in the 2016 US...