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.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

The User Illusion

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December 18, 2016 Book review: In The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down To Size (Penguin Books, 1991, English translation 1998), ...

Term limits proposed for congress

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December 18, 2016 In a December 9 Washington Post opinion, senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and representative Ron DeSantis (R-FL) stated that th...

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Recent activity at Biopolitics and Bionews

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October, 26, 2106 Recent rational politics-related posts on (i) my Disqus channel Biopoltics and bionews , and (ii) other Disqus channels ...

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...

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