PoliGazette Launches

Over the past few months I have been working with Michael van der Galien to launch a new moderate conservative (or moderate liberal, depending on how you look at it) blog and news site. Well, today it has seen the light: PoliGazette is here!

Make sure to read the welcome post here.

More Doubt Required

As much as I believe in poise, certainty and focus there is as Robert Wright so eloquently puts it in his latest diavlog, no better friend to have than doubt. He's absolutely right and I recommend his regular diavlogs (this week with Joel Achenbach instead of Mickey Kaus) as mandatory material, it is some of the best blogospheric content currently available.

Co-Authoring ...

I have signed on as a contributing author on The Van Der Galien Gazette where I will post some of my thoughts from time to time. My first piece, Diana and the Culture of Death, is up. Enjoy.

A Normblog Milestone

Profile number 200 is up, this time a very special guest. My favorite question and answer:

Can you name a major moral, political or intellectual issue on which you've ever changed your mind?

There was a time when I thought that, if not all, then at least most, human wickedness was produced by circumstance. I no longer think that. I believe there are bad impulses within the nature of human beings, though that's not to say that circumstances aren't important in either encouraging or restraining these. One of the things that changed my mind was studying the literature of the Holocaust. But as important an influence was observing the smaller-scale episodes of selfishness, dishonesty, mean-spiritedness, unkindness, and all the rest of it amongst people with comfortable enough lives and no obvious external reasons for behaving badly.