Collected Links to Acid Test posts on democracy, and related blessays [1]
- Power: social gravity
- Conservatives: What’s wrong with them? [2]
- It’s about the power, stupid [3], Mark Lilla, discussion of religion and politics
- Bridging the West-Muslim Divide [4]
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Ethics, or figuring out which way is up
- Arguing against progressives who accept injustice [5] just to stick it to the right wing.
- “Ignoring” the problem is the essential component enabling violence [6].
- Torture is a Crime Against Humanity [7]
- Which way is up [8]
- Slavery’s Damage [9]
- Human Rights Are Not Optional [10]
- Pundophallacy [11]
- Chopped hands don’t matter … over there [12]
- Conflating morality and disgust is immoral [13] (Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis)
- Discrimination — the mind plays tricks
- Are Women Human? [14]
- We’re All Gay [15]
- Immigrants in these United States [16]
- Preconditions of democracy
- Free speech, T-shirts, cartoons, and everything [17]
- Weaponized Free Speech [18]
- Free speech, blogging, and trolls [19]
- Copyright, copyleft, copy everything [20]
- AOL: Get out of my underwear drawer! [21]
- Dawkins is wrong about God [22]
- God is no excuse [23]
- Advertising: What you don’t know gets you [24]
- The Pinworms of Peace and Prosperity [25]
- Get the fashion police out of politics! [26]
- Governing
- Democracy Doesn’t Work [27]
- Redistricting [28]
- On bureacracy [29]
- Civil War, Uncivil War [30]
- The death penalty is lethal [31]
- Economy
- Free Markets Cost Too Much [32]
- Globalization for me but not for thee [33]
- The real moral hazard of medical insurance [34]
- Gene scans and single payer health insurance [35]
- Profits cost us cures [36]
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Environment
- Biofuels: good, bad, and ugly [37]
- Nukes can never be the answer [38]