Toward a Radical Christian Center

Posted: September 23, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: News | Leave a comment

Kudos to Steve Monsma for taking on the sacred cows of right-wing Christendom to plead for a new radical center:

This leads me to plead for a radical Christian center.  Centrism may appear to be wishy-washy and undecided or so apathetic that one refuses to take sides.  But a radical Christian center is far from being either.  It is radical in that it goes to the root of today’s political issues, asking basic questions of purpose, value, and worth.  It puts the common good ahead of partisan advantage and narrow special interests.  If you don’t think that is radical, you haven’t been paying much attention to this fall’s partisan election campaigns

The Second Order Of Business

Posted: November 16, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Centroids | Comments Off on The Second Order Of Business

[Originally posted on November 16, 2006]

The following books seem to share a common mindset about the nature of modern business that represents a radical break from conventional thinking. But, what exactly *is* the common thread that ties them all together? I don’t know, but I hope that listing all their key findings here will leading to conceptual unification — what I call “Kepler’s Hedgehog.”

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The Purpose of Business: Sustainable Capitalism (2.0)

Posted: October 5, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Centroids | Comments Off on The Purpose of Business: Sustainable Capitalism (2.0)

[Originally posted on October 5, 2005]

Eureka! Thanks to John Mackey’s debate with Milton Friedman, I believe I’ve finally figured out the subtle flaw in the neo-classical formulation of capitalism:

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Madeleine Albright, on Democracy

Posted: May 8, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Governance Reform | Comments Off on Madeleine Albright, on Democracy
[Originally posted on May 8, 2006]
An impressive speech at Princeton (hat tip to Winds of Change) with a nice 14-point summary of what it means to realistically promote our ideal of democracy:
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Dee Hock on Noise, Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom

Posted: March 13, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Dee Hock on Noise, Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom
[Originally posted on March 13, 2006]
Linda Stone is perhaps most famous for coining the phrases “continuous partial attention” and “committed full-attention focus is the next aphrodisiac.” However, I’m especially grateful for her (hat tip to Nat on O’Reilly) pointing me to Dee Hock’s definitions of how information evolves:

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Hello WordPress!

Posted: March 16, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Website Updates | Leave a comment

This marks the move of my “News from the Radical Center” blog to WordPress.com.

How to write an Effective Political Platform

Posted: December 21, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: News | Comments Off on How to write an Effective Political Platform
[The following article from Centroids was solicited by PetitionSpot, apparently because they were impressed by my petition to Elect Jon Stewart].
Inspired by what I considered excessive solutions, I thought I should actually write down what I think a good, actionable Platform would look like. Or, more precisely what we’d need to do in order to do the job effectively in the context of the Unity08 movement.

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New Activity over on Unity Watch

Posted: November 1, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Website Updates | Comments Off on New Activity over on Unity Watch
This is a belated notice that I have shifted my
online activity to the new Unity Watch blog focused exclusively on Unity ’08.
While not without its challenges, Unity ’08 represents the best chance for
centrists to influence the 2008 election, so the Centroids crew is retargeting our efforts to
communicate with that community. Come on over and check us out!

Egocasting: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Posted: April 21, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Egocasting: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
[The following is extracted from an email response I sent to a friend who asked about Christine Rosen’s article in The New Atlantis, “The Age ofEgocasting.”]

Interesting stuff. To be sure, this feels more like an extended and eloquent “rant”
than a real essay. Then again, Pod person that I am, I skimmed it rather than
reading it through. 🙂

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Pundita’s Macro-Economics of Micro-Entrepreneurship

Posted: March 30, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: News | Comments Off on Pundita’s Macro-Economics of Micro-Entrepreneurship
My fellow blogger Pundita — mostly on hiatus but returning to a weekly format in April — very kindly responded to my query about fellow blogger Eric Raymond’s enthusiasm for micro-infrastructure:
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