Dissident Politics

Pragmatic politics focused on the public interest for those uncomfortable with America's two-party system and its way of doing politics. Considering the interface of politics with psychology, cognitive biology, social behavior, morality and history.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Book review: Superforecasting redux

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In Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction , social scientist Philip E. Tetlock and journalist Dan Gardner (Crown Publisher...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

A fact and logic distortion-reducing political ideology

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This is my most refined articulation of how social and cognitive science knowledge might be applied to mainstream politics. The point is to...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

How terrorists are made

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In the last decade or so, social science has focused attention on the question of how terrorism arises and sustains itself. Although resear...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Book review: Democracy for Realists

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A recently published book, Democracy For Realists : Why Elections Do not Produce Responsive Governments (Christopher H. Achen and Larry M...
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