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- The Law Encodes One Morality and the Public Holds Another
- Seven Things Wrong With Sortition
- The West Lost Its Religion and Was Handed Nothing to Think About Instead
- Three Conditions Decide Whether Direct Democracy Can Take Root
- Direct Democracy Does Not Decide Technical Questions, It Decides Who Inspects Them
- Who Sets the Dose of Self-Deception a Society Runs On?
- We Have No System for Distributing Wealth, and Cannot Admit It
- Trading With Dictators Is a Nash Equilibrium, and Only a Coalition Can Leave It
- Intersubjective Reality Changes Slowly Because Hierarchies Own It
- Direct Democracy Shows Where Morals Actually Come From
- The Shalit Case Was Never Discussed, Because Nobody Trusted the Government to Discuss It
- A War the Majority Chose Is a War You Can Fight
- A Weak Regime Cannot Hold the Social Contract Together
- Law Without Tradition and Authority
- Many of Our Legal Norms Are Workarounds for a Government We Cannot Control
- Jared Diamond's Surviving Societies Had One Thing in Common, and Representative Government Does Not Have It
- If a Label Carries No Properties, What Is It For?
- Four Roads to Direct Democracy, and Why the Destination Is More Certain Than the Route
- Being Part of Something Larger Makes People Happy, and Voting Every Four Years Is Not It
- Habermas Was Right About the Channels and Wrong About the Manners
- Every Regulatory Dilemma Is Really a Trust Dilemma
- A Voting Formula for a Party That Takes Its Orders From the Public
- Direct Democracy Will Not Slide Back Into Autocracy, Because Nobody Wants It To
- Minority Rule Is What Lets the Majority Keep Its Myths
- A System of Government That Needs Mass Support to Exist Is More Likely to Last
- Direct Democracy Can Be More Liberal Than Any Representative Regime
- Direct Democracy Is the Natural Arrangement, Representation Is the Strange One
- Biology Proves Hierarchy Is Optional
- Direct Democracy Is the Open Wrestling of Groups, and Open Is Better
- Direct Democracy Is Also a Weapon in the Struggle Between Regimes
- Economists Argue About Value Because Nobody Is Allowed to Negotiate It
- The Planet Would Vote Against Nuclear Weapons, and Cannot
- Representative Government Hoards Information, and the Hoarding Is the Point
- Large Events Come From Stored Tension, and Direct Democracy Releases It Early
- What Computers Can Honestly Do for Collective Decisions
- Why There Will Never Be Just One Cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin Does Not Remove Trust, It Moves It
- Consciousness May Be the Override Switch on a Crude Emotional Calculator
- Is Suffering as Real as We Think It Is?
- Pain Is the Price of Being the CEO
- "I Decided" Without Free Will
- The Sweet Spot of Climate Alarm, and Why Nobody Aims for It
- Climate Change Will Be Used to Roll Back Democracy Unless the System Changes First
- Films Are Negative for a Reason, and It Is Not the Reason I Am
- Small Anarchism Could Be Right and Still Not Worth Supporting