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Best Philosophical Blogging of 2015

anotherpanacea — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:21:46 -0800

3QD has announced its top picks for philosophy blogging:
1. Top Quark: Vidar Halgunset, Slow Corruption
2. Strange Quark: Daniel Silvermint, On How We Talk About Passing
3. Charm Quark: Lisa Herzog, (One of) Effective Altruism’s blind spot(s)

Holes in your mind, cold and sharp at the edges.

anotherpanacea — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:56:11 -0800

"FABRICATIONIST DEWIT REMAKES THE WORLD" is a work of interactive fiction that tells the story of a synthetic being who, after a sleep of centuries, receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project.

Problem: "the American public has become more consistent and polarized"

anotherpanacea — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:49:06 -0800

American Democracy is Doomed is a Vox long(ish)read by Matthew Yglesias summarizing the work of Juan Linz on constitutional crises in presidential democracies (previously), which combined with constitutional hardball and ideological polarization threaten to destroy American democracy (#nottheonion). As Yglesias describes the problem, it's primarily structural, an inevitable result of rules that have failed in every other country that has tried them. (We're 30 for 30 so far.) (All but the first link are pdf.)

Pell Grants for Prisoners

anotherpanacea — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:35:22 -0800

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced Monday that the White House will take advantage of a loophole in the 1994 law that banned incarcerated Americans from using Pell Grants to pay for college, "developing experimental sites that will make Pell grants available" to prisoners.

ACA passed "to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them"

anotherpanacea — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:38:31 -0800

The US Supreme Court upholds subsidies on the federal exchanges in King v. Burwell in a 6-3 ruling written by the Chief Justice Roberts. Rejecting Chevron deference, the court decided that Congress actually intended for the federal exchanges to work like the state exchanges.

The Burnout

anotherpanacea — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 06:26:30 -0800

Missouri keeps killing Jennifer Herndon’s clients. So she invented an alternate life.

Joining the Maroons

anotherpanacea — Fri, 29 May 2015 07:00:30 -0800

Did Alice Goffman commit a felony? (From Ethics On the Run)

The Theology of Consensus

anotherpanacea — Wed, 27 May 2015 07:41:09 -0800

The prime appeal of consensus process for forty years has been its promise to be more profoundly democratic than other methods. But let’s face it: the real-world evidence is shaky at best.

The Limits of Discourse

anotherpanacea — Mon, 18 May 2015 08:26:10 -0800

Sam Harris debates Noam Chomsky

my mother-in-law served as a substitute bride

anotherpanacea — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 07:46:55 -0800

"It was actually harder for Eri to enter the country because she was married to me." Justin Merrill describes how US immigration policies ruined his wedding as a part of OpenBorders.Info's series on the personal reasons to support open border policies.