A Rose By Any Other Name: Labels for Political Ideologies and Parties
I was watching some old episodes of The West Wing on the weekend and I came across two scenes that I think epitomize part of the problem with politics today. Both scenes are from Season 2 and the first...
View ArticleDo You Know The Difference Between Left and Right?
This past weekend, someone tweeted a link for a YouTube video (of a TEDTalk) that I was surprised I hadn’t seen. It was a rather interesting video that claims to isolate the differences between...
View ArticleYou Need To Seek Out Ideas and Opinions That Are Different From Your Beliefs
[Editor's Note: This post's title was changed on September 16th from "if you're a conservative, tell me which liberals you read: if you're a liberal, tell me which conservatives you read."] I was born...
View ArticleIf Cats and Dogs Could Vote, Which Party Would They Vote For?
The other day I was playing with my dog and I said something about moving ‘to the left.’ Naturally, my wife recalled the Beyoncé song, “To The Left.” However, since I spend a lot of time watching and...
View ArticleMore Civilized Conversations, Less Screaming Over Each Other
A few days ago, I happened to catch a segment from All In With Chris Hayes. He had on one of the people I follow on Twitter, Tim Carney. Part of the reason that this is noteworthy is because Carney is...
View ArticleThe Habits of Societies: The Power of Habit, Part 3b
In Part 1a, we had an introduction Duhigg’s book on habits. In Part 1b, we looked at some of the highlights and the key points from the first section (on individuals) of the book. In Part 2, we looked...
View ArticleMusings on the Future of Cable News
After reading Kelefa Sanneh‘s piece in The New Yorker that took an in-depth look at MSNBC, it got me thinking about what I wrote a few days about about the future of TV. In that post, I mostly talked...
View ArticleListen — Let It Swirl Around Your Head, Then Form Your Opinion
In the past two weeks, I’ve seen a lot of people make a lot of different arguments about why they support/oppose intervening in Syria. Of all the arguments I’ve heard, the ones that irritate me the...
View ArticleEvidence that Liberals and Conservatives Can Have Civilized Conversations on...
This past summer, I talked about a segment on a cable news show in the US called, “All In With Chris Hayes.” I first started watching Chris Hayes when he started his weekly weekend show, “Up With Chris...
View ArticleBig Government NOT Linked to Greater Corruption
You hear it all the time: “Big government is the problem.” “We need to reduce the size of the government if we want to eliminate corruption.” As it turns out, just because the government grows in size...
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