My Morals Are Stronger Than Your Morals
The difference between conservatives and progressives or liberal and their electoral success or not is complicated. Lakoff attributes this to messaging and Haidt to moral differences.
Tangled Trees, Tangled Truths
Thinking about how our divided politics, which is so mixed up and tangled, that it looks similar to the kind of tangling that physicists and biologists deal with.
Loss and Disappointment
When is the right time to tell someone you're gay? Two instances of when it was too late.
Conservatives Tell Us How to Behave
How do conservatives look at the concerns of progressive people? From the book The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray, like a bunch of complainers who don't know how good they have it.
Becoming Different: Opening the Door to Gay Society
The stereotype of the gay man fated to be lonely and alone has with the gay rights movement gotten less true. There's still a gay life after 40 or at least there can be.
Believe Me, I’m Telling You the Truth!
Some thoughts on truth and believability, which are not the same thing. Truth can be slippery and discerning it can take some effort on the reader's or listener's part. It's as easy to be deceived as to be enlightened.