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, December 3, 2025

Supporting democracy: Citizen's assemblies

Context Decades of polarizing and often anti-democratic rhetoric have contributed to declining trust in democratic institutions and proc...

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

The epitome of moral rot

Context Cognitive biology: Although some people are uncomfortable with linking subjective, personal morality to politics, social science ma...

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Fact checking technology update

A paper submitted to Arxiv , FlashCheck: Exploration of Efficient Evidence Retrieval for Fast Fact-Checking , considers the obvious idea of ...

From the human condition files: Fused minds and the slow-rising tide of American awareness

Democracy isn't edible, but food is Some wonder why it has taken Americans so long to see the threats of both authoritarianism and profo...

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