Ebola, Risk Management, and the Case for Principled Pragmatism
The national conversation we’re having about ebola might help party leaders get the vote out. It might also increase the risk of an outbreak.
by Tod Kelly
Tagged: Ideology Is The Enemy
Getting a Temperature Reading on Climate Change Politics
Gawker’s Adam Weinstein and the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Lawrence Torcello have each come out for the criminalization of climate-change denial. I’m curious to know what readers here think of this.
Splitters! : A few notes on ideology and what I mean when I say “the left”
One of the questions that’s coming up in the Right Path posts is, what do I mean when I say “the left?” Let me explain…
The Right Path, Part I: “To look more hard working”
The second in a four part series that argues that the left is headed down the same path toward the wilderness that the right began two decades ago. Before we look at the left, however, we must first examine the actual path blazed by movement conservatives.
Ideology Is The Enemy: The Competing Cancers
On average, men wait significantly longer for prostate cancer surgery than women do for breast cancer surgery – and a lot of people are calling foul. The lesson to be learned from this much ballyhooed statistic? That more and more, ideology is forcing us to choose narrative over data. Tod Kelly explains.
The 10 Biggest Lies Being Told About the Government Shutdown
If you’ve been listening to cable news, talk radio or your local Republican Congressman talk about our current government shutdown, chances are that much or all of what you’ve heard is a lie. Here is a list of the ten biggest whoppers being floated today.
Radical Libertarianism is the Drug War’s Best Friend
Libertarians largely agree that the Drug Wars needs to end. Their latest Internet folk hero, however, might make ending those Wars that much harder.
On the Nature of Evil: A Question for the Hive Mind
I’m working simultaneously on several new posts for my Ideology Is The Enemy series, and because of this I’ve been thinking a bit about the concept of evil. There are a few things I...
Ideology is the Enemy: The Creeping Victory of “Consistent” over “Judicious”
Note: This is part of an ongoing series I’m doing on the growing dangers we face by becoming more ideologically rigid. They are not intended to go in any particular order, and would be...
Ideology is the Enemy: Prelude
Over the next several weeks months I will be writing about the recent ascendance of ideology in the United States and why it worries me. Specifically, I worry that the voting public’s generations-long desire...
