Adam Gurri
Articles by Adam Gurri
An Ordinary Life and the Pitfalls of Greatness
I will confess that when J. Arthur Bloom announced he was joining Front Porch Republic’s editorial team, I had not heard of it. So I went and took a look,…
Kids These Days: Why We Shouldn’t Worry if They Don’t Leave Home Early
A popular version of the undying nostalgia for a golden era gone by is the view that this era was a time when men were men, and children grew into…
Group Decisionmaking and Individual Responsibility
Part of the pushback against the notion that groups can make decisions comes from the fear that we already use groups to absolve ourselves of individual responsibility. James Buchanan made…
Do Groups Make Choices After All?
Mike Munger was recently on EconTalk, where he is a very regular guest. This time the subject of discussion was his latest book Choosing in Groups. Munger is an excellent…
The Quest for Moral Adulthood
The path out of childhood often feels like one of the moving walkways you see in airports; there is a single direction you are being pushed in, and you are…
Free Yourself from the Telescopic Morality Machine
There is one version of the history of modern media that is a story primarily about a drug, developed to make its users feel anger with delightful intensity. Refinement of…