The Welch Review
Politics, philosophy, and the ideas underneath them
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A collection of individually reasonable choices can produce an outcome nobody chose and nobody wants. Why this is a distinct kind of political problem, and why it resists the usual remedies.
The metaphor is doing more work than it can bear — and the case for free expression is stronger without it.
Five words that do more arguing than the arguments around them, and what happens to a dispute when you make them say what they mean.