Chris JoosseWe should also appreciate the role of the ultra-wealthy in reverting the authority of…Jul 18Jul 18
Chris JoosseA closer look at the 14thA plain reading of the 14th Amendment, Section 3 seems to say that anyone that’s taken an oath of office to to support the constitution of…Apr 91Apr 91
Chris JoosseOn privilege, and what it isn’tPrivilege, when you get down to it, is being immune to particular problems that other people are not immune to.Apr 91Apr 91
Chris JoosseHow to attract hordes of passionate stans to your politically and socially unpopular ideasAre your politics burdened with being unpopular with voters? No problem!Jul 22, 2023Jul 22, 2023
Chris JoosseHow in a real way, our politics are literally backwardsIdeally in a functioning democracy, we evaluate (and vote on) our political options in terms of whether or not the policies or ideas work…Jul 22, 2023Jul 22, 2023
Chris JoosseSome thoughts on why Church and State ought to be separateAs humans, we are prone to cognitive biases, to a slippery relationship to truth, and to struggles when it comes to having compassion for…Jul 11, 2023Jul 11, 2023
Chris JoosseFrom the ‘but that’s socialism’ filesWe’ve all seen those online discussions about why we can’t have better health care in the USA, or why expanded voting rights protections is…Jun 22, 2023Jun 22, 2023
Chris JoosseOn Illiberal politics and anti-democracyYou’ve encountered the ‘well actually, we live in a republic, not a democracy’ guy countless times in the comments section on social media…Jun 21, 2023Jun 21, 2023
Chris JoosseOne key bit of context that seems to get lost too often when discussing the pros/cons of regulation…In other words, what sometimes appears to be a dispute about whether or not to have regulation is instead about who should have regulatory…Jan 10, 2023Jan 10, 2023
Chris JoosseThe politics of the pandemic shouldn’t have been as absurd as they wereWhen the pandemic hit, we were caught in a bad spot. It was the first such pandemic in living history, and although there had been…Dec 5, 2022Dec 5, 2022