Sympathy for the Nudgelords: Vermeule endorsing stupid and dangerous election-fraud claims and Levitt promoting climate change denial are like cool dudes in the 60s wearing Che T-shirts and thinking Chairman Mao was cool—we think they’re playing with fire, they think they’re cute contrarians pointing out contradictions in the system. For a certain kind of person, it’s fun to be a rogue.

A few months ago I wrote about some disturbing stuff I’d been hearing about from Harvard Law School professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeuele. The two of them wrote an article back in 2005 writing, “a refusal to impose [the … Continue reading → …