Archive for May, 2009

Envisioning America’s Health

Envisioning America’s Health

By Aaron T. Knapp • on May 24, 2009

The time for health care reform has come.  But in order to implement specific policy reforms, we first need a health care vision — a vision that recognizes our health is a fundamental precondition of liberty; a vision of Americans taking responsibility for their own bodies and minds; a vision that sees the connection between, on the one hand,

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Parties Without Partisanship

Parties Without Partisanship

By Aaron T. Knapp • on May 12, 2009

How can you have postpartisanship when there are two dominant political parties?  The answer lies in a distinction.  Yes, another one of those pesky intellectual distinctions.  The distinction is between partisanship on the one hand, and party-affiliation on the other. Party-affiliation is a function

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Has The Blogosphere Failed Us?

Has The Blogosphere Failed Us?

By Aaron T. Knapp • on May 11, 2009

For over forty years, three major news stations — ABC, CBS, and NBC — the Associated Press, and a few large newspapers were the primary means by which most Americans got their news and learned about political issues.  During this period, there was little, if any, partisan-style debate by

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