Author: Guest Authors
Formerly a Post on Consequentialism
There was a post here about centrism, but now consider it something of an open thread..
Love note to national treasure, Gord Downie
Gord Downie is a Canadian icon. As The Tragically Hip wind up their final tour, Sarah Banks reflects on his importance, his humanity and his beauty.
Matt Taibbi: A Republican Workers’ Party?
Via Zac
Like Marxism, globalization is a borderless utopian religion. Its adherents almost by definition have to reject advocacy for the citizens of one country over another. Just as “Socialism in One Country” was an anathema to classic Marxists, “prosperity in one country” is an anathema to globalists, no matter what their politicians might say during election seasons.
If you bring up the destruction of the American middle class, pro-globalization adherents will point to facts like the rising fortunes of those hundreds of millions of Chinese workers who are now supposedly above the World Bank definition of poverty, making more than $1.90 a day.
That those same workers still have virtually no rights or benefits and on occasion have to be housed in factories with safety nets to keep them from killing themselves at an astronomical rate is immaterial to True Believers.
They want even American voters to focus on the good news of incrementally increased wages abroad, forgetting that American workers never signed up for a plan to disenfranchise themselves so that workers in China or India could earn a few quarters more per day. Moreover, they certainly didn’t elect leaders to push such policies.
Brokered Convention: Nothing To Worry About
Guest poster Jay From Brooklyn explains why the Republicans need not fear a brokered convention.
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
I Didn’t Skip the Readings
Gabriel Conroy looks back to the time when, as a young and devout Catholic, his college biology class assigned readings counter to his beliefs.
Can States Afford a Part-Time Legislature?
Times have changed. So should state legislatures’ schedules.
AP History Recall Campaign
Direct democracy and education policy: something that everyone can take exception to.
Modeling The Physical World
Computer Modeling – It’s more than just pretty pictures. (by Oscar Gordon)
