>On Diana Mutz And More

>My first post for TGGP’s Entitled To An Opinion blog is here.

>I will no longer be blogging at The Art Of The Possible

>Indefinitely. But the archive is here.

>I will be blogging at The Art Of The Possible

>Indefinitely.

>"Homo Politicus: Just What Animates Voters?" up at The Art of the Possible

>My first post for AOTP is here.

>Pictures From Boston: Critical Review’s Post-APSA Conference on Political Ignorance and Dogmatism, August 29-31st

>These pictures are rather, well, crappy. But I offer them nonetheless. I’ll be doing a write-up on the conference for The Art Of The Possible blog in the near future, but for now “enjoy” the following: The Boston Park Plaza Hotel, from my room. Built in 1927, and triangle shaped, it reminded me of the […]

>Kenan Malik, Robert Putnam and the Essentialism, or Not, of Groupism

> British writer Kenan Malik takes to task both the multicultural, essentialist left and the socio-biological right in an excerpt from his new book Strange Fruit, over at Sp!ked Online. Malik highlights the affinity between notions of inevitable group conflict, and individual allegiance, along racial/ethnic lines; long a staple of right wing thought, the modern […]

>Abdullahi An-Na‘im, Meet Mario Rizzo

> Charles Kurzman of The Immanent Frame blog writes, in his post “An Islamic Case for a Secular State”, that If the state is going to enforce any principle from Islamic sources, according to Abdullahi An-Na‘im, then it should implement the principle that the state should not enforce Islamic principles. This is the crux of […]

>Public Choice Theory Takes a (Minor) Beating

> Not that it hasn’t already been proven as non-universalizable by Jeffrey Friedman, among others. British economist Chris Dillow cites a paper studying the relative altruism of those working in the non-profit and for-profit sector, published by the Centre for Market and Public Organization . Probably not surprising to a leftist – or, well, most […]

>Inadvertently Progressive Pirates

> Though I don’t much like the term “Progressive” given their actual history. Economist Peter Leeson has a study entitled The Invisible Hook: The Economics of Pirate Tolerance. He documents the relatively more racially inclusive environment of pirates vis-a-vis the “respectable” and official seafarers of the 17th and 18th centuries. This was not due to […]

>That Conservative Comfort with "Rule of Law" and Quietism

> Via the Booker Rising Blog, here is conservative Gregory Kane writing in the Baltimore Sun: Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that America is becoming a society where it’s all the rage for people to pick and choose which laws they’ll obey and which ones they won’t? I was driving east […]