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.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Shifting With the Landscape

Most of our political system is beyond our direct control, so while we might exert some small influence on it, it's usually drowned out ...

Climate Change Today: Not a Natural Cycle

One of the arguments that many climate science deniers use to deny that modern climate change is a man-made problem is to characterize it as...

Separation of powers requires impeachment's separation from politics

House Democrats are taking a politically obvious, but constitutionally oblivious, approach to impeachment. Make no mistake, they are perf...

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Book Review: Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell’s 2019 book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don't Know , deals with the human condition in t...

Weird, cops keep getting caught doing racist shit in private

Fri, Aug 9, 2019 Ok - this article is a bit dated, but we need to pay attention to this kind of thing: A framed Ku Klux Klan applicat...

Saturday, October 19, 2019

The Case Against Political Ideology

How you think matters more than what you think. ….. beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded. – Philip Tetlock and ...

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