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 science, social behavior, morality and history.

Friday, May 29, 2015

Institutional disrespect for law

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On March 10, 2015, the Wyoming state legislature passed a " data trespass bill ". The law is designed to limit collection of data ...

Monday, May 18, 2015

Politics and economics: Rational or not?

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Dissident Politics relies on current understanding of human cognition to argue that the two-party system (TPS) subtly but effectively m...

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Our ideologically politicized Supreme Court

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Americans expressing a great deal or fair amount of trust in the Supreme Court peaked at about 71% in 1999 and dropped to 61% by 20...

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Political advocacy: Win by deceit and hypocrisy

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An April 27, 2015, a Wall Street Journal editorial by William McGurn argued that when America loses a war, the losses are high and not f...

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Irrational political assaults on research

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In 1972, Congress created the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to provide objective and authoritative analysis of complex scientific ...

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