Was 2016 a good year?
We are now a week into 2017, and we will never see 2016 again. I’ve heard lots of people saying that 2016 was a terrible year. The reasons greatly differ,… Read more »
Category Archives: Politics
Outcome versus Opportunity
I’ve received some questions following the No true Scotsman post that I wrote two weeks ago, regarding my offhand comment about equality of outcomes or equality of opportunity. This means… Read more »
No true Scotsman
First of all, sorry for not posting much lately, finals weeks are taking up a lot of my time. You’re not a real american if you don’t own a… Read more »
Philosophy in public education (with a bit of background about the blog)
As most of you might have noticed, I like philosophy. I also happen to hate philosophy classes in school. I feel like it makes absolutely no sense to pretend to… Read more »
The perfect president
The results are in. Scott Adams might be a genius, but we can’t know for sure. Either way, lots and lots of people are, at best, unsatisfied, and at worse,… Read more »
The responsability of voting
The 2016 presidential election is growing closer by the minute. Very soon, the United States of America will have chosen their new president for at least four years, except if… Read more »
How to make an efficient democracy Part 2
At the moment, The USA are about a month away from electing one of the two most despised people in the country as president. That’s usually a pretty big red… Read more »
How to make an efficient democracy Part 1
According to pretty much everyone, dictatorships are bad. Monarchies are often criticized too for various reasons. In the modern world, pretty much every country has put in place some sort… Read more »
xkcd and cognitive dissonance
Warning: xkcd-themed post ahead. This means that, like always, every single picture has a humoristic . The difference is that this time, they are actually funny. I’ve been reading xkcd… Read more »
There are idiots on both sides
I was thinking about politics the other day, and realized something. Everyone has heard, probably several times, the following sentence or an equivalent. “There are idiots on both sides” Some of… Read more »