Walter Horn

With Trump on charge, should "progressives" now become "states' rights" advocates? luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2026/02/shou...

this whole thing is on Bezos, a perfect example of why billionaires will not save us

for years he supported the Post and then he decided destroying it utterly at the altar of a wannabe dictator better served his personal ambitions, so he did

institutions shouldn’t live or did at one man’s whim

Willmoore Kendall, Irascible Drunken McCarthyite, YES; Brilliant Scholar, NO. Part I. Socrates, Mill, and Free Speech

Trump didn't come from nowhere. How did we get here? A reviewer of a recent biography of William F. Buckley's teacher and colleague, Willmoore Kendall, says that Trumpism would have been impossible without Kendall. I begin my discussion of this "hero" here luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2026/02/will...

What is "Direct Democracy"? What is "More Democracy"? What is Less?

New piece on the initiative, the referendum, and recall. luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2026/01/what...

New F.O. release! framed-ophelia.bandcamp.com/album/grids-...

You are indefatigable.

YouTube video by walter horn The Very Air is Brown

Something I made in remembrance of the murdered Brown students: m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTVE...

I have a go at Prof. Charles Beitz's newly published Tanner Lectures here: luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/12/ah-w...

Hegseth gave a My Lai vibe, for he makes that war-fighting episode the U.S. military's finest moment.

He takes the realist position that bad people must be killed--armed or unarmed, adults or babies. We can know they are bad because they have drugs, or look different, or can't understand English.

Matthew Kramer's Book on H.L.A. Hart

FWIW, there's a smidge about you in my new review of Kramer's 2018 book on Hart. luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/11/matt...

And I wonder--am I about to receive the same kind of pummeling that Dyzenhaus got about 25 years ago???

Matthew Kramer's Book on H.L.A. Hart

Just wrote something on Matthew Kramer's 2018 book on Hart.

luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/11/matt...

Just made a kind of melancholy, valedictory blog post.

luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-di...

Not all Manders are Gerry And fixing the problems they create isn't a matter of tit-for-tat or keeping up with the bad guys

All that Manders is not Gerry! substack.com/@walto1111/p...

Right on! www.amazon.com/Democratic-T...

Also: luckorcunning.blogspot.com

Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism - Kindle edition by Horn, Walter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism.

Right on! www.amazon.com/Democratic-T...

Also luckorcunning.blogspot.com

Whoopsie. (Don't fix it though: that would be weak.)

@awfulannouncing.bsky.social Just wondering whether anybody enjoys John Champion's constant banter and attempts at humor.

A lot of announcers have no ability at all. That's not Champion. He knows the game, and would actually be quite good if he could manage to stop trying to be funny.

Recalling "Recall"...and Its Author Nothing else would do in the U.S. today.

What we actually need is RECALL. open.substack.com/pub/walto111...

You mean, otherwise they wouldn't continue to do so?

This is a fantastic statement from the governor of Washington, but I can't get past the fact that the man who's standing up to the right-wing anti-immigrant machine is named ...

Bob Ferguson?

Seriously?

Does he have a daughter named Willa?

Digging himself a little deeper into hell with every repeated lie.

YouTube video by walter horn Dawless (but hardly flawless) jam.

www.youtube.com/shorts/2VuBm...

Like Satchie below, I realize that I was confused about something awhile back. I try to make my amends--and introduce a new review of an excellent book here: luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-l...

Will Kimmel be another Shostakovich, revising his approach in response to "just criticism"?

(I'll say no, but I've been wrong before.)

FWIW, I'm currently working on a review of Sara Lagi's book on Kelsen, which, I think weirdly, never mentions (let alone trolls) Hart.

I find I can only believe them seriatum, myself.

A Shared "Solution" to a Problem Basic to Both Epistemology and Political Theory

Decisionism's epistemic cousin, particularism: are they blood relatives? luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-sh...

Maybe evidence that Donald Trump entered into a "Queen for a Day" proffer agreement with Barry Krischer & Alex Acosta in Florida’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein?

Mike Johnson & Nancy Mace have publicly stated that Trump told them he was an FBI informant and helped the FBI “take Epstein down.”

On the Practice of Retaliatory Gerrymandering luckorcunning.blogspot.com/2025/09/gerr...

YouTube video by walter horn Blue Glitch

New Framed Ophelia vids are available. Here's one: youtu.be/LW0WJLD6dbQ And there are links to a bunch more.

Also, if you'd care to see us in the West Village in October, let me know and I'll pass along the deets!