Chase Madar offers a pragmatic case for single-payer health care, that he argues is conservative by reference to—get this—examples such as Winston Churchill and Otto Bismarck and, a little less unreasonably, pointing1 to Friedrich Hayek's acceptance that government may have to intercede to pr

One of the tasks Republicans have set for themselves since winning the presidency and retaining control of both houses of Congress in the 2016 election is to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. It's proven much more difficult than, to be completely honest, I expected.

It's a question I intentionally evaded in my dissertation, writing instead that in that work, I wanted to specifically address conservative arguments.

Back in 2003, when I returned to school and took my first research methods class, the professor (Valerie Sue) expressed considerable concern that response rates on telephone surveys had dropped as far as they had. I am uncertain as to the rate she quoted. I'm pretty sure she said it should be ninety percent or higher.

Update, May 16, 2017: I initially composed this entry away from home and was, at that time, uncertain about one of my citations (specifically, the one for Alfonso Montuori's argument, which is not just his argument). This has now been corrected and I have also changed some wording to reflect the correction.

Updates, May 9, 2017: This post has been updated for a defense of the criticism of Rebecca Tuvel's article,1 and for a response to that criticism.

One of the topics I avoided in my dissertation work is fascism. There are two main reasons for this. First, the term is so ill-defined that at times, especially in the run-up to the election last year, I've even gone so far as to suggest the term should not be used. Sara Robinson notes that "[t]he word has been bandied about by so many people so wrongly for so long that, as [Robert] Paxton points out, 'Everybody is somebody else's fascist.'"

A first draft for presentation on September 9, 2016 at the Human Science Institute Conference, "Compassion, Connection and Response-Ability," in Salt Lake City. It does not yet respond to my colleagues who will be presenting in the same session:

Draw a picture:

1. 1) Change from living more or less in harmony with our natural environment to: 

Update, June 16, 2016: Since writing this post, I have learned that the late Chief Justice Warren Burger offered a similar view, saying "that the Second Amendment 'has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat the word "fraud"—on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.'" I have not located a transcript to confirm the full text in the meme; apparently he said it on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1991

This is a somewhat flawed reproduction of my dissertation. It is too large a document to be practical to edit here.