Mid-Course Correction

1. While I posted to Thinking Slowly 15 times in January, I only posted 8 times in February. At the same time, the posts have gotten longer. When reading other blogs, I prefer frequent, shorter posts to infrequent, longer ones. I resolve to do the same here. A possible problem is that some of the topics I hope to write about require a more extended discussion. For the time being, my solution will be to break them up into parts, as I did with Cooling the Marks, Part 1 and Part 2.
   
   
2. When I started the blog, my plan was to relate my posts—with the exception of those about music—to research or theory in the social sciences. That approach pushes the blog in certain directions, but discourages others. For example, it's easy to write about health care and racial discrimination because new studies appear often. On the other hand, I care a great deal about U. S. foreign policy, but I haven't discussed it all in almost three months. Civil liberties and campaign finance reform are other examples of political topics for which I found it difficult to locate pertinent research. (Freedom Of/Freedom From is one of essays I most enjoyed writing, but it's a semantic exercise, and I had to violate my own “rules” to include it.) In the future, I will include more posts about political issues which don't tie directly into the social sciences. It is hoped that these posts will still be consistent with the theme of slow thought.

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