Democracy
Collected Links to Acid Test posts on democracy, and related blessays
- Power: social gravity
- Conservatives: What’s wrong with them?
- It’s about the power, stupid, Mark Lilla, discussion of religion and politics
- Bridging the West-Muslim Divide
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Ethics, or figuring out which way is up
- Arguing against progressives who accept injustice just to stick it to the right wing.
- “Ignoring” the problem is the essential component enabling violence.
- Torture is a Crime Against Humanity
- Which way is up
- Slavery’s Damage
- Human Rights Are Not Optional
- Pundophallacy
- Chopped hands don’t matter … over there
- Conflating morality and disgust is immoral (Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis)
- Discrimination — the mind plays tricks
- Are Women Human?
- We’re All Gay
- Immigrants in these United States
- Preconditions of democracy
- Free speech, T-shirts, cartoons, and everything
- Weaponized Free Speech
- Free speech, blogging, and trolls
- Copyright, copyleft, copy everything
- AOL: Get out of my underwear drawer!
- Dawkins is wrong about God
- God is no excuse
- Advertising: What you don’t know gets you
- The Pinworms of Peace and Prosperity
- Get the fashion police out of politics!
- Governing
- Democracy Doesn’t Work
- Redistricting
- On bureacracy
- Civil War, Uncivil War
- The death penalty is lethal
