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James Kierstead

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James Kierstead is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, where his research focuses on ancient Greek democracy.

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Two Concepts of Representation

May 16, 2019
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James Kierstead

The idea of representation has been enjoying a boom of late. Of course, our modern democracies are representative ones, and the idea that our governments and parliaments should be representative…

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The Tyranny of the Minority—and How to Prevent It

April 2, 2019
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James Kierstead

When the internet first became part of mainstream public life, one of the great hopes it seemed to hold up was that of an expansion of democracy. From now on,…

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Protagoras on the Google Memo

March 10, 2018
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James Kierstead

In a recent piece for Quillette, Bo Winegard talks about what he calls “cosmic egalitarianism,” a thoroughgoing sort of egalitarianism that reacts strongly to arguments that some groups of people…

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