So, I've decided to take this blog in a new direction. It seems to me that with all of the number crunching and minutiae debating happening in DC, nobody is willing to address the big philosophical questions of governance. In the political world in which I travel it has become very posh to shit all over political philosophy and philosophy in general. "It's not practical!" "Where's the data?" "How does this apply?" I wonder, though, without engaging with the philosophy, how can we move beyond the pros and cons of specific policies written by FDR or LBJ? From the right we hear about eliminating government programs and from the left we hear about supporting them, but nobody proposes real alternatives to them which could be more efficient and effective and which could better reflect where we want to be in 20, 50, or 100 years.
So, my three readers, keep looking and soon I'll be pouring in my own philosophy, starting with the most basic assumptions about government. So please read and comment and build a conversation.
