Intelligence, education, and political activity

It just can't be true that people with more education would tend to align with the "conservative" Republican party. "However, in most national and regional studies on voting behavior... just such a relationship is typically observed..."
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2778029?sid=21105143536851&uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=4&uid=2&uid=3739848&uid=70

Really?? But we are taught to assume the opposite. After all "for every one percentage point increase in college graduates in a state, the percentage of Democratic identifiers increases by 0.75 percent":
http://www.progressivepolicy.org/blog/more-college-graduates-more-democratic-voters/

But wait... the research results are actually all over the board:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201305/intelligence-and-politics-have-complex-relationship

So, if you want to understand how human political activity, there is a lot to absorb. But if you want to find research that confirms what you want to be true, there is a lot to choose from.

"RHETORIC" WITHOUT DIALECTIC

http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/Courses/TRIVIUM/ClassicalDialectic/index.htm

There's talk about Rhetoric, but you can't study Rhetoric without learning Dialectic first.  For proof of this we need look no further than the first line of Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric.  He says explicitly that:

"Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic."

The art of Dialectic (as well as Grammar) is assumed knowledge in any classical book on Rhetoric, yet students are offered courses in Rhetoric without every studying Dialectic.  How can this be?

What wealth does to your soul

WHAT IS CLEAR about rich people and their money — and becoming ever clearer — is how it changes them. A body of quirky but persuasive research has sought to understand the effects of wealth and privilege on human behavior — and any future book about the nature of billionaires would do well to consult it.

"What wealth does to your soul"

Related Links:

the Psychology of Wealth
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21/

The 'Haves' show less empathy than 'Have-nots
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/#.VLGGpWevyYA

How Wealth Reduces Compassion
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.abstract

Study: The influence of social class on Empathy
http://www.cultureofempathy.com/References/Articles/RichPoor/index.htm

Prosocial Spending and Happiness
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45753

Prevalence and correlates of shoplifting in the United States
http://www.pubfacts.com/detail/18381900/Prevalence-and-correlates-of-shoplifting-in-the-United-States:-results-from-the-National-Epidemiolog

Why political practitioners in Washington avoid the APSA

The Irrelevance of Modern Political Science

There were no political luminaries in attendance at the American Political Science Association’s convention last week, ... One of the conference’s highlights, according to its Web site, was a panel titled “Is Political Science Relevant?”

I have often taken a random article from the American Political Science Review, which resembles a mathematical journal on most of its pages, and asked students if they can envision this method providing the mathematical formula that will deliver peace in the Middle East. Even the dullest students usually grasp the point without difficulty.

Also see: Scholars on the Sidelines

The Eighth Defendant, Black Panther Party History

Instilling and inspiring in them the hope that change is possible and that, we the people, must proactively work to preserve our constitutional rights. With the help of people like you, that we will succeed and get an honest film about my sixties protest movement history and the history of the Black Panther Party produced. I am asking those like you, who know my sixties protest movement history and that of the Black Panther Party, to support this independent film production. Contribute at our Indiegogo Fund page and receive books, posters, DVDs and memorabilia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgaiZAHkV30

How to Curate Your Digital Identity as an Academic

If you don’t manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you
So how might academics—particularly those without tenure, published books, or established freelance gigs—avoid having their digital identities taken over by the negative or the uncharacteristic? After all, no one wants to be associated almost exclusively with blogs of disgruntled students, Tumblr and Twitter hashtags like #IHateMyProfessor...

eric voegelin & leo strauss

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/04/eric-voegelin-leo-strauss-and-american-conservatism.html