This post is for new authors that I am inviting to join me here. This is a blog I started about four years ago with a graduate school friend of mine. We recruited a number of authors to debate and discuss a variety of topics in politics, political science, and philosophy. I now want to revive this with a group of new authors who have met through school or teaching.
The purpose as I see it is to try and generate some discourse again on a variety of politically related topics. So to that end, politics, political science, and political philosophy will be the main topic of discourse and I ask the new authors to stick to that.
No real guidelines other than that. Length and content I leave totally to the discretion of the author. Style is totally up to the author as well...if you want to post a link to a piece of news and give some commentary on it, write a bit of funny/witty satire, take a more serious tone, or write a small researched article that cites sources...any of those are fair game. Feel free to post bits of your own personal manifesto, political creed, ideology, or your vision of utopia/dystopia.
I have deleted all previous content in order to start fresh. I may however re-post some of my old writings for you to tear apart, but only after I've posted some new stuff.
I ask that when you do post that you put your user name at the front of the title as I have done with this one...so we immediately know the source of the new article. I also ask that in the labels section you put your user name as well...so that articles are easily searchable by author. You may also label them according to topic: such as "news commentary" or "utopia" for example.
Comments, that is where people will respond to blog posts and again, feel free to comment critically, constructively, attack or defend your positions. I ask that it remain civil and attack the message and not the author themselves.
Finally, I will give administrative permissions to all authors. I have brought the blog down to the barest essentials, but there are many blog tools we could add to the site. So take a look at some of them and make suggestions at any time for tools and gadgets we can add to the blog. Also feel free to add links in the links section of the blog.
That is it for now, post and comment as often as you like and I hope we can generate some great ideas for discussion and debate!
Friday, November 05, 2010
Fitz--The Free Thought Association is Back!
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And of course, if any one has any questions regarding how to post or how to navigate the various tools, let me know.
Also, do you think we should have more than one post per page? Or make sure that someone's post has some front page time before a new post is added?
More than one post per page seems like a good idea to me. I'll post my first today. I have an afternoon off, and I'd rather spend it writing than doing something banal.
Sounds good Brandan, post away! I noticed you had something in drafts, look forward to it.
I changed it so that they will be 5 posts per page. We can make it less or more later on. I also added a gadget to show recent comments...that what you can easily navigate to the most recent conversations.
Does economics enter into the domain of "politics, political science, and political philosophy"?
I'm going to be discussing political philosophy and ethics quite a bit, but most of my arguments will be deeply rooted in my economic ideas. I want to discuss a lot of history as well.
Yes, I figured political discussions will always bleed into the other social sciences and history.
Politics in general tend to do that...
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