Bee follows up the legendary Science and Democracy and Science and Democracy II: the Hierarchy Problem with
...Science and Democracy III in which we find that there are actually types Ia, and Ib and Ic which are really part of type II before natural selection is applied to the whole process for part III
It is interesting stuff, and should provoke a lot of comment.
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Dennis Overbye at the NYTimes somewhat unintentionally answers the "what is science's rightful place?" question in his column.
Under Bush, the US has taken upon itself to bring democracy to other countries.
I closed my reflections on Egypt with the title's Ben Franklin quotation. And I want to expand on that point briefly, because there's often confusion about what it takes to make a republic.
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom foundation has an excellent article in the Chicago Sun-Times about the distinction between democracy and liberty, a point I make regularly and loudly on this blog.