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The Logic of Voting for a Lesser Evil - and Other Writings on the Ethics of Voting

Compendium of links to some of my writings on the morality of voting.

Reason · 20h ago

North Carolina NC-11 Election 2026: Democrat Jamie Ager faces Republican Jennifer Balkcom in race for US House seat

North Carolina 11th Congressional District election 2026: North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District will see Democrat Jamie Ager face Republican Jennifer Balkcom and Libertarian Travis Groo in the November 3 election. The Republican nomination changed hands after incumbent Chuck Edwards withdrew from the race on August 5, 2026, following a House…

The Economic Times · Nov 1

Astika and Nastika Never Meant What You Were Taught They Mean

Sanskrit has a habit of surviving its translators. Astika and nastika are two words that have been carrying the wrong definition in English for long enough that the wrong definition now feels obvious. Unpack them and you find a classification system so precise it sorted the Charvaka materialists and the…

Times Life · Oct 31

Shukra Niti: 5 Rules on Choosing Work and Employers That Still Hold Up

Shukracharya was not writing a self-help book. He was writing a manual for statecraft, for ministers, advisors, and skilled men deciding which king was worth serving. The Shukra Niti, attributed to him, is a text on governance, economics, and the ethics of service. But the logic underneath its rules about…

Times Life · Oct 26

Why Dana Ranked Above Almost Every Virtue in the Ancient Texts

The Mahabharata's Anushasana Parva opens a long discourse on dana not with a hymn to the generous heart but with a question about hierarchy: of all the paths to dharma, which stands highest? The answer, returned more than once across the text, is dana, not prayer, not austerity, not learning.…

Times Life · Oct 23

Former Trump Aide and GOP Rep. Max Miller Accused of Scalding His Ex-Wife and Holding a Gun to Her Head

Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller will stay in the congressional race despite abuse allegations he denies, a House ethics review, and calls from GOP leaders to quit.

International Business Times UK · Oct 22

What Chanakya Knew About the People Who Work in Your Home

She knows which drawer you never close properly. She knows the smell of the house after a fight, and she has learned not to comment on the unwashed dishes that appear on those mornings. You have never spoken about any of this. Neither has she. That silence is not emptiness,…

Times Life · Oct 22

What the Arthashastra Says About Money That Spirituality Ignores

Kautilya wrote the Arthashastra sometime between the fourth and third centuries BCE, and he did not waste a sentence on ambivalence about wealth. Artha, material prosperity, economic power, the capacity to act in the world, was not a concession to human weakness. It was one of the four aims of…

Times Life · Oct 22

An inquiry into alleged COVID-19 vaccine injuries fails to weigh the ethics and risks of Canada’s response

In early September, Conservative Party MP Dean Allison held a four-day independent, unsanctioned “inquiry” for “Canadians to share their personal experiences of injuries…from the COVID-19 vaccine(s).” The event heard testimony that alleged the response to COVID-19 was “a miserable failure,” not least due to the “assaults on freedom and other…

The Conversation · Oct 21

Fast-fashion giant Shein outperforms several Australian retailers on ethics, report says

Ghanda and Windsor Smith among lowest-rated in Baptist World Aid ethical fashion report based on metrics such as wages and sustainability

The Guardian - AU · Oct 21