The message a nudge sends

In “It’s All for Your Own Good,” an article in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, law professor Jeremy Waldron offers a particularly thoughtful examination of nudge-ism, via a review of two recent books by chief nudgenik Cass Sunstein. Here’s a brief bit from a sectionin whichWaldron explores the tension between nudging and dignity:

Nudging doesn’t teach me not to use inappropriate heuristics or to abandon irrational intuitions or outdated rules of thumb. It does not try to educate...