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THE GADFLY EDITORIALS
Most of these brief pieces were written
specifically for the internet, appearing first either in The Online
Gadfly or The Crisis Papers. Some of this material has
been adapted and included in Conscience of a Progressive.
Accordingly, the first listing under these topics will be the relevant
chapters in the book.
All editorials
written specifically for the internet (published first by The Online
Gadfly or The Crisis Papers) will be identified by a header,
"The Gadfly Bytes" along with the date of publication.
This is a selection from over 250 internet essays. Excluded from this
collection are essays concerning events and issues that were
significant at the time of their posting, but are less so now.
Essays dealing with political issues are listed separately under
"On
Politics: Notes of a Reluctant Radical."
Philosophy and Religion
Farewell to Mormonism: No Regrets (November, 2012)
"That's
Just Your Opinion" (June, 2008)
About
this "Mormonism" Thing. (December, 2007)
"Do You
Believe in God?" (April, 2007)
Through a
Glass, Darkly (November, 2005)
Why be
Reasonable? (March, 1998)
Ethics, Moral Issues, and the Law
In Conscience of a Progressive:
Good for Each, Bad for All. (Chapter 5)
The Moral Point of View. (Chapter 6)
How
is Morality Possible? (Chapter12)
A
Progressive Moral Philosophy (Chapter 14)
When
the Law Goes Flat (Chapter 19)
America as a Free Fire Zone
(February 22, 2012)
Property Rights and Public Accommodations (July, 2010)
Morality
as a Plus-Sum Game... (April, 2010)
Evil as the
Absence of Empathy (July, 2008)
A
Defense of Moral Relativism (November, 2005)
Prices and
Values (August, 2005)
John
Rawls -- A Tribute (March, 2004)
Junk History as
Legal Precedent (January, 2002)
Junk
Psychology (June, 2002)
The Paradoxical Right to Life
(October, 1999)
Round Up
the Usual Suspects (May, 1999)
Reflections on the Gurney (March, 1999)
The Environment
How to Talk to a Climate
Change Denier (November 6, 2013)
Nuclear Power -- Not
Now, Not Ever (March, 2011)
A Convenient Delusion (December, 2009)
Climate
Reality Bites the Libertarians (April, 2008)
The
California Wildfires and Right-Wing Smoke (November, 2007)
Global
Engineering and Climate Change (October, 2007)
Whose Trees
Are These? (January, 2005)
Garrett
Hardin, A Tribute (October, 2003)
If It Burns,
It Earns (October, 2003)
Elegy for a
Ponderosa Pine Tree (August, 2003)
Northern
Exposure (Summers 2000, 2002)
My
Seven Years as a Corporate Token (November, 2001)
Put
Down that Monkey Wrench! (November, 1999)
Economics
In Conscience of a Progressive:
Privatization and Public Goods. (Chapter 8)
Remedial Economics for Regressives. (Chapter 9)
Prices and Values. (Chapter 10)
If It's Good for General Motors, Is it Good for the Rest of Us?
(May, 2010)
Theory vs.
Reality: Why Market Absolutism Fails (December,
2008)
The
Outsourcing Tragedy (August, 2008)
Reverse
Henry Fordism (June, 2008)
Market
Failure: The Back of the Invisible Hand (June, 2007)
The
Scorpion, The Frog, and The Corporation (September, 2006)
Symbionts
and Parasites (September, 2004)
In
Deep Voodoo (October, 2002)
The Oil
Trap (August, 2002)
Flunking Econ. 101 (June, 2002)
The Deserving Rich? (February, 2002)
Sucker Economics
(November, 1999)
Devouring the Seed Grain (August, 1999)
The
New Alchemy (July, 1999)
Two
Lessons from Russia (October, 1998)
Education
Why Should I Pay for Someone Else's Education?
(Chapter 22,
Conscience of a Progressive)
Touch
Football and Television (April, 2007)
The
Banalization of Genius (April, 2000)
In
Defense of Research Universities. (January, 1999)
Science
The Eclipse of Science and Reason.
(Chapter 21, Conscience of a Progressive)
Nuclear Power -- Not Now, Not Ever
(March 29, 2011)
On the
Morality of Science, (May, 2007)
"Creationism" and the Devolution of the Intellect
(February, 2005)
Is
Science Just Another Dogma? (July, 2002)
Global
Defense (March, 2000)
Political Editorials
("On Politics: Notes of a
Reluctant Radical")
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