303 | AMA | February 2025

8308.609 - 8337.771 Sean Carroll

I think an underappreciated problem with democracy is just that nations are big now. I mean, 200 years ago, we didn't have 300 million people in the country, and the voices mattered a little bit more. So there's a lot of things going on here. We talked about this with Herb Gintis, among other things, and it's a reflection of – a more general issue in philosophy, in moral philosophy or whatever.