Behavioral economics—arising from the insight that people make recognizable, systematic mistakes—has revolutionized policymaking. For example, in governments around the world, including the US, teams of experts have recently arisen to harness these insights, promising to do things like...

Traditional justifications for civil disobedience emphasize the limits of even democratic political authority and defend civil disobedience as a just response when governments overstep these limits. Such liberal justifications are well suited to disobedience in protest of laws or policies that...