Choosing Better

What are we doing when we cast a ballot? Enoch and Tim start with an uncomfortable fact: statistically, a single vote almost never decides an election. So why vote? They explore the idea that voting is less about controlling the outcome and more about expressing what we desire, which frees us to vote our values rather than game the result. They also compare different election...

Enoch and Tim examine capital punishment in the United States, not only whether the death penalty can be morally justified, but whether the modern state can carry it out justly and humanely. From lethal injection and nitrogen gas to the return of the firing squad, they explore recent failed and contested executions, the arguments for and against the death penalty, and what th...