- March 1, 2017
David Burress
From a certain point of view, the current crisis was entirely caused by moderates and centrists. Moderates, please bear with me. Assume for the sake of argument a simplified model in which one side in a deep political division is strongly unified, and is thoroughly radical and extremist in its ends, means and rhetoric, and ...
- February 27, 2017
David Burress
It seems increasingly obvious to me that it is scientifically possible to design better forms of political and economic organization than those we currently possess. There is no obvious reason, for example, why we should make it so easy, and actually statistically likely, for sociopaths to seize positions of high power as CEOs and heads ...
- February 24, 2017
David Burress
In all of history there has never been a world-wide famine. The world has always produced enough food for everyone. Famine has always been a local problem and a distribution problem.
Moreover since the time of the Roman empire, in civilized countries famine has never been a transportation problem. Famine is an income problem.
Moreover there has ...
- February 23, 2017
David Burress
February 2 Tweet:
“If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view – NO FEDERAL FUNDS?”
Skipping over all other violations of free speech in the country, Trump carefully defends Milo Yiannopoulos, an antisemitic pedophile who happens to be allied with Trump’s leading adviser.
But rather than ...
