pg 196 2000 version of Gibson's Neuromancer:

"Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. the zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. you couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory. but Tessier-Ashpool wasn't like that, and he sensed the difference in the death of its founder. T-A was an atavism, a clan. he remembered the litter of the old man's chamber, the soiled humanity of it, the ragged spines of the old audio disks in their paper sleeves. one foot bare, the other in a velvet slipper"

"wintermute and the nest. phobic visions of the hatching wasps, time-lapse machine gune of biology. but weren't the zaibatsus more like that, or the Yakuza, hives with cybernetic memory, vast single organisms, their DNA coded in silicon?"

"Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people. he'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitage's flatness and lack of feeling. he'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accomodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. it was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDNmZWFhN2ZjYTg3NzRhZjg3ZThkYjhjYmQ1MzRiMTI=
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/preston200510050823.asp
http://www.reason.com/news/show/32972.html
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28899.html
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDM2ZGUxOGZhMjdkMWZmNjAzYWZlNDQ5MmRjZDIwMGU=
http://www.whedon.info/Serenity-on-Nationalreview-com.html
http://users.livejournal.com/_allecto_/34718.html?page=1%23comments

“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