joshuago’s politics Bookmarks

To help his brother, the more worldly and pragmatic Quintus Cicero wrote a no-nonsense guide for winning elections that rings as true today as it did 2,000 years ago.

Instructions for how to submit an opinion piece to the LA Times.

When you post your deep libertarian thoughts on Facebook you're basically flushing great writing material down the toilet.

Instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform.

We have to make the case for free enterprise and economic growth from a moral perspective, using language about opportunity and happiness and living a meaningful life. We have to explain how the pursuit of happiness requires the opportunity to earn our success, and how earned success comes only when we succeed on our own terms.

An accessible overview to help you keep Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke straight in your head. Includes a nice introduction to the philosophy of John Rawls, too; the Scandinavian political system and expectations are modeled after ideas put forth by Rawls.

Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition. Civil liberties make countries rich. It is the people who break rules that are the source of America's wealth and power.

The United States is a peculiar beast. It is an ideological polity. It is based on a creed; it is based on an idea, and it feels obliged to live up to that. But it is also a state like any other state: a state with interests, a state living in the real world of international relations.

Karl Rove reviews five books: The Federalist Papers, Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville), The Conscience of a Conservative (Barry Goldwater), Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman), and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith).

No one knows what the word “stochastic” means.