Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I agree that we need an Article V Convention. All current convention calls have and will fail since there are not thirty-four states that will support any partisan call. The only way it will happen is if thirty-four states pass an issue-neutral call wh…

Is it realistic to think that we can generate adequate motivation to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of “saving democracy” (or something like this)? What makes more sense to me (and has more historical precedent) is generat…

Regime change has worked out great in the past for America. I’m not sure why you think it would work so easily and well in Venezuela? Why not adopt a more sensible strategy that does not involve sanctioning a country into economic abyss and hence…

My favorite is the map: “According to the compactness index…” A compactness index? What’s that? Looks at the bottom of the map. Oh. Oh, I see… LikeLike

“No one is going to propose deleting the Bill of Rights, and the Civil War amendments are safe.” I’m not sure where your confidence in this comes from. I think it’s enormously likely that amendments would be posed weakening bot…