November 04, 2016
Time for Political Disruption
The election is only a few days away. The most bizarre election in my lifetime, I think. The two major candidates are the most disliked pair of major party candidates we’ve ever…
Author: Andrew Cohen
October 18, 2016
Against thinking independent voters must vote for your candidate
This is a general response to those that insist a vote for a third party is a vote for the “other” candidate–the one you are so convinced must be defeated–in…
October 12, 2016
Which is worse?
Consider each of the following scenarios: Scenario 1: Police officer is riding along when he spots a car with a black male driver. As he follows a policy of racial…
October 04, 2016
Follow Me On Twitter @DrToleration
Ideally, I will tweet about toleration–when I see it missing, where I see it mistakenly extended, etc. More realistically, I’ll first be posting about the current presidential election. Along the way,…
September 28, 2016
The Presidential Candidates and Civil Discourse
Well the first debate is over. There is no need to remark here about how crazy this election cycle is or how terrible the debate was. US politics has gotten…
September 21, 2016
Improving Grand Juries
I originally intended to have at least 2 more posts on grand juries, but decided against. They were both going to be “its unbelievable how easy it is to get…