Our good friend and occasional Shaftesbury speaker, Mike Munger, has this superb essay on the problems of democracy on the EconLib site.
A sampling: “The pretense that in the multitude we find rectitude is dangerous: many of us would love to impose our ‘wisdom’ on others. Saluting the collective wisdom is simply a way to hold other citizens down whilst we steal their purses, or pack their children off to war.”
ATSRTWT.
