Mark Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He was the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2017-2018 academic year.
How did religious freedom first emerge? This is the theme of Persecution and Toleration (CUP, 2019). Here I focus on one part of this question: how did Jews obtain civic rights? Antisemitism has a long history in Europe. Elsewhere, I discussed its institutional foundations in the Middle Ages. But even
With a breezy preface that approvingly references recent political developments in America and Britain, Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism offers a defense of the nation state. Now, there is a case to be made; indeed, there is a liberal and cosmopolitan case to be made. The nation state
Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming “the concept of race was birthed by the Enlightenment,”[2] which then sparked a full-length article fleshing out his position.[3] His key claim is that colonialism, slavery, imperialism, and racism