“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”

—Margaret Thatcher

"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies," wrote C.S. Lewis, a man who knew a thing or two about religion. "The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

pg 20/21 - Candide: "one day Cunegonde was waling near the house in a little coppice, called 'the park,' when she saw Dr. Pangloss behind some bushes giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting-woman, a pretty little brunette who seemed eminently teachable. Since Lady Cunegonde took a great interest in science, she watched the experiments being repeated with breatheless fascination. she saw clearly the Doctor's 'sufficient reason,' and took note of cause and effect. then, in a disturbed and thoughtful state of mind, she returned home full of desire for loearning, and fancied that she could reason equally well with young Candide and he with her"

https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/index.html - Evolutionary World Politics
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/ess/ess.htm - European Sociobiological Society
http://www.adamsmith.org/ - Adam Smith Institute
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/ - Adam Smith Institute blog
http://www.independent.org/ - Independent Institute
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/ - World Affairs Journal
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ - Foreign Policy
http://agenda.nationalreview.com/ - Salam's The Agenda
http://www.irtheory.com/know.htm - IR Theory
http://www.evolutionary-philosophy.net/library.html - Evolutionary Philosophy
http://www.toddseavey.com/ - todd seavey
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas - TVO's big ideas
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/ - front porch republic
http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/ - league of ordinary gentlemen
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/ - standpoint
http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk - uncommon knowledge
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/danielhannan/ - dan hannan
http://www.econtalk.org/ - econtalk
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/ - point of inquiry
http://www2.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/national/andrew-coynes-blog/ - coyne
http://www2.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/national/inkless-wells/ - wells
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/andrew-steele/ - andrew steele
http://www.cato.org/podcasts/ - CATO podcasts
http://reason.tv/podcast - Reason podcasts
http://app2.capitalreach.com/esp1204/servlet/tc?cn=aei&c=10162&s=20271&e=5115&&du=/a/aei/feed.jsp&fn=un - AEI podcasts
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/ess/books1.htm - MASSIVE AWESOME BOOK LIST

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rmasters/ - masters
http://dss.missouristate.edu/bthayer.htm - thayer
http://www.niu.edu/polisci/faculty/profiles.shtml#arnhart - arnhart
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sap12/home/ - steven peterson
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/dennen.htm - van der dennen
albert somit
vincent falger
robert h. blank
samuel m. hines
http://www.complexsystems.org/bio.html - peter corning
http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person140813.html - ralph pettman
elliot white

dead: glendon schubert and thomas wiegele

http://www-app.igb.uiuc.edu/ibpsi/index.html - Illinois Biology and Politics Summer Institute
http://www.aplsnet.org/ - Association for Politics and the Life Sciences website (see: research - links + bibliography + course syllabi (esp. Strate's Biopolitics)
http://politicsandthelifesciences.org/ - Politics and the Life Sciences
http://www.ajps.org/ - American Journal of Political Science
http://www.apsanet.org/content_3222.cfm - American Political Science Review
http://ips.sagepub.com - International Political Science Review
http://www.polisci.niu.edu/polisci/graduate/politics.shtml - Politics and the Life Sciences Masters Degree
http://www.catooncampus.org/tag/show/639.html - Cato internships, etc
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/education_programs/forstudents/internship_program - Fraser Internships
http://www.theihs.org/ - IHS
http://www.theihs.org/ContentDetails.aspx?id=704 - IHS Internship lsit
http://fee.org/ - Foundation for Economic Education
http://www.heritage.org/about/internships - Heritage
http://www.aei.org/basicPages/20038142214000059 - AEI
http://www.hbes.com/ - Human Behavior and Evolution Society
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos - EvoS/Binghamton
http://www.evolutionsociety.org/resources.htm - society for the study of evolution
http://www.epjournal.net Evolutionary Psychology Journal
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+and+archaeology/journal/12110- Human Nature



http://politicsandlifesciences.wordpress.com/- PLS blog
http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/- Larry Arnhart
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative
http://www.aldaily.com/- Arts and Letters Daily
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb- Claremont Review of Books http://toddseavey.com/
http://www.newcriterion.com/
http://www.c2cjournal.ca/
http://secularright.org/ - secular right
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex - Jonah Lehrer
http://www.brainandevolution.blogspot.com - EvoPsych blog
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp- Gene expression
http://meaningoflife.tv/- Meaning of Life tv
http://www.templeton.org/evolution- Evolution at Templeton
http://www.edge.org/- Edge
http://www.corante.com/brainwaves/ - brain waves

http://www.newpaltz.edu/evos/seminar.html
http://www.bec.ucla.edu/BECSpeakerSeries.htm

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/polsci/information/graduate/graduate_information.htm - Toronto Graduate Studies
http://www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/graduate/index.html - York Graduate Poli Sci
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/polisci/Webpages/Prospective%20Students/Graduate%20Students/home.html?../Webpages/Prospective%20Students/Graduate%20Students/about.html=gold --> McMaster Graduate Poli sci

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html - Evopsych FAQ
http://www.human-nature.com/darwin/index.html - Darwin database
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/ - Center for Evolutionary Psychology
http://www.mercatus.org/ - Mercatus Center
http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/ishe/ - International Society for Human Ethology
http://www.une.edu/nei/ - New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies
http://www.sealsite.org/ - Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law

"This fissure had many philosophical names: soul versus body - mind versus heart - liberty versus equality - the practical versus the moral. But all of these false dichotomies are merely secondary consequences derived by the mystics from one real, basic issue: reason versus mysticism- or, in political terms, reason and freedom versus faith and force."

Ayn Rand- The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age

"However, we live in an increasingly censorious age. By this I mean that the broad, indeed international, acceptance of First Amendment principles is being steadily eroded. Many special-interest groups, claiming the moral high ground, now demand the protection of the censor. Political correctness and the rise of the religious right provide the pro-censorship lobby with further cohorts. I would like to say a little about just one of the weapons of this resurgent lobby, a weapon used, interestingly, by everyone from anti-pornography feminists to religious fundamentalists: I mean the concept of “respect.”

On the surface, “respect” is one of those ideas nobody’s against. Like a good warm coat in winter, like applause, like ketchup on your fries, everybody wants some of that. Sock-it-to-me-sock-it-to-me, as Aretha Franklin puts it. But what we used to mean by respect- what Aretha meant by it; that is, a mixture of good-hearted consideration and serious attention- has little to do with the new ideological usage of the word.

Religious extremists, these days, demand respect for their attitudes with growing stridency. Very few people would object to the idea that people’s rights to religious belief must be respected- after all, the First Amendment defends those rights as unequivocally as it defends free speech- but now we are asked to agree that to dissent from those beliefs- to hold that they are suspect, or antiquated, or wrong; that in fact, they are arguable- is incompatible with the idea of respect. When criticism is placed off limits as “disrespectful,” and therefore offensive, something strange is happening to the concept of respect. Yet in recent times both the American National Endowment for the Arts and the very British BBC have announced that they will use this new version of “respect” as a touchstone for their funding decisions.

Other minority groups- racial, sexual, social- have also demanded that they be accorded this new form of respect. To “respect” Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him. To “diss” him is, equally simply, to disagree. But if dissent is also to be though a form of “dissing,” then we have indeed succumbed to the Thought Police. I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom by pussyfooting around their fellow citizen’s opinions, even their most cherished beliefs. In free societies, you must have the free play of ideas. There must be argument, and it must be impassioned and untrammeled. A free society is not a calm and eventless place- that is the kind of static, dead society dictators try to create. Free societies are dynamic, noisy, turbulent, and full of radical disagreement. Skepticism and freedom are indissolubly linked; and it is the skepticism of journalists, their show-me, prove-it unwillingness to be impressed, that is perhaps their most important contribution to the freedom of the free world. It is the disrespect of journalists- for power, for orthodoxies, for party lines, for ideologies, for vanity, for arrogance, for folly, for pretension, for corruption, for stupidity, maybe even for editors- that I would like to celebrate this morning, and that I urge you all, in freedom’s name, to preserve."

Salman Rushdie
April 1996
“Farming Ostriches” Originally delivered as a keynote address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

"Conservatism favors the restraint of government. A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. Also, conservatism is, at least in its American form, a philosophy that relies upon personal responsibility and promotes private liberty. It is an ideology of individuals. Everyone with any sense and experience in life would rather take his fellows one by one than in a crowd. Crowds are noisy, unreasonable and impatient. They can trample you easier than a single person can. And a crowd will never buy you lunch.

"But although this is a conservative book, it is not informed by any very elaborate political theory. I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

God is an elderly, or, at any rate, a middle-aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material weel-being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God’s heavenly country club.

Santa Claus is another matter. He’s cute. He’s nonthreatening. He’s always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who’s been naughty and how’s been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without thought of a quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he’s famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus."

PJ O'Rourke

Road to serfdom pg 19-
"But while the progress toward what is commonly called “positive” action was necessarily slow, and while for the immediate improvement liberalism had to rely largely on the gradual increase of wealth which freedom brought about, it had constantly to fight proposals which threatened this progress. It came to be regarded as a “negative” creed because it could offer to particular individuals little more than a share in the common progress- a progress which came to be taken more and more for granted and was no longer recognized as the result of the policy of freedom. It might even be said that the very success of liberalism became the cause of its decline. Because of the success already achieved, man became increasingly unwilling to tolerate the evils still with him which now appeared both unbearable and unnecessary."

Road to serfdom pg 25-
"Nobody saw more clearly than De Tocqueville that democracy as an essentially individualist institution stood in an irreconcilable conflict with socialism: “Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, “ he said in 1848; “socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”"

-Hayek

I love Lubor Zink

"Some people maintain that Canada's basic and overriding interest is national sovereignty. Others are convinced that what really
matters is economic growth. Still others give basic priority to social justice. There are also those who believe that all
effort should be concentrated on transformation of the UN into a world government. Yet another view holds that the most
urgent problem we must tackle is pollution of natural environments. It is not difficult to find arguments in support of every
one of these positions. But that does not mean that any one of them qualifies as indisputable number one priority.

That place surely must be reserved for the historical priority of free men throughout the ages, namely preservation of freedom.
Without freedom there can be no national sovereignty, no social justice, no economic growth worth working for, no peace
and no enjoyment of life even in the cleanest natural environment. That fact that from time immemorial people have valued
freedom above life itself attests that there is no higher priority in the scale of human values. Doubts on this score can
only come from those who have inherited the blessings of freedom, take them for granted and have no notion what loss of freedom means."








"The intimate spiritual and material bonds between Canada and the US grew out of shared concepts of human life within the
framework of the highest degree of individual and political freedom ever attained anywhere in the world. No one maintains
that the socio-politico-economic system of North America, as practiced with minor variations in Canada and the US, is perfect.
Perfection in the sense of idealistic abstractions is beyond the grasp of human nature. But with all its obvious shortcomings our social
system provinces a flexible structure of unparalleled liberty and unparalleled affluence.

The Soviet system of coercive messianism, spawned by contempt of what Marx called "the miserable individual," and fueled
by organized hate, has produced a rigid totalitarian structure that cannot tolerate any of the expressions of freedom we take
for granted. At the same time, while building and enormous military machine and providing material privileges for the
upper crust of its self-appointed ruling clique, it maintains a low general standard of living in what is in effect an archaic police
state. It takes a peculiar mind to seek cordial relations with the rulers of such a society. And it takes a streak of
perversion (or perhaps, blindness) in that peculiar mind to set as a national goal the same type of intimate relations
with a totalitarian state that we have enjoyed, until recently, with the congenial democracy south of the border.

Mr. Trudeau has such a a peculiar mind. While he was exercising it in the ivory tower of the academe, the harm he could do,
though not negligible, was fairly limited. As Prime Minister, who commands a rubber-stamping majority in Parliament, he is in a position to put the country on collision course
with its vital interests. "