Just in time for Mother’s Day, a rather long article on just when motherhood begins: Toward a Democratic Consensus on the Start of Life. If you care at all about the abortion question, read it. It’s big, but important. You will learn: Why the Court was correct to demand more than mere legislation to outlaw… Continue Reading
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Rethinking Roe v. Wade
Things have been quiet here on the blog, but I have recently added a honkin-big study on the main site: A Fuzzy Workaround for Roe v. Wade. If you are pro life, it could be the most important article you read this year, or even decade. It outlines a legal strategy for restricting abortion which… Continue Reading
Two New Projects
There hasn’t been much activity here on the Holistic Politics blog of late, but that’s not because I have been slacking. Two new projects are in the pipeline — or, at least one new project and a major update of an old project. 1. It’s time to update the Enhanced-Precision Political Quiz in 2D. You’ve… Continue Reading
Updating the Blog
I just installed the Headway Theme on the blog. As such I’m like a four year old kid who has been given a big box of crayons and markers. I can change box sizes, borders, colors, fonts, etc. on a page by page basis using a visual editor. And so I do so, and the… Continue Reading
Is it Global Warming Yet?
A year and a day ago, my yard looked like this: (I live on the coastal plains of North Carolina, a land not noted for its white winters.) Today, it is supposed to get up to 63 degrees. Two points do not a trend make. However, in this case they are representative. Last year was… Continue Reading