Complete Table of Contents

1. Digging Up Roots.
   1. Becoming Radical Means Opening Your Mind.
   2. What Would We Be Like If We Were Rational?
      1. The Hopelessness of Labels.
      2. Mr. Spock Looks at Politics.
   3. How Values Differ.
      1. How Values & World-Views Change Each Other.
      2. How Liberals and Conservatives Differ on Values & World-Views
         1. Uniters and Dividers.
         2. Are Republicans Just Evil?
         3. Manicheaism: The Do-badders World of Good & Evil.
         4. The Pervasiveness of Manicheaism.
         5. Absolutism and Ethical Relativism.
         6. Science, Subjectivity and Ethics.
         7. The Justice Illusion.
         8. What Jesus Had To Say about It.
         9. Was Jesus Right?
      3. Excluders
      4. The Psychic Surgery of the Self-Haters.
         1. Idealism, Idolatry, & Ideology.
         2. Idolatry.
         3. Idealism.
         4. Ideology.
         5. Liberal Ideology.
      5. Mystery and Certainty.
         1. Love of Certainty
         2. The Illusion of Certainty.
      6. The Independence Illusion.
         1. Freedom and Equality.
         2. The Role of Government.
      7. Moral Courage: Its Lack in Liberals and Conservatives.
         1. The Welfare Controversy.
         2. Poor Folks Have Poor Ways.
   4. Fix Democracy First.
      1. Direct Democracy?
      2. Term Limits?
      3. Money and Media Complex.
      4. Gerrymandering.
      5. Election Fraud.
      6. Independent Judiciary.
      7. How to Structure a Representative Democracy.
         1. Tiered Democracy.
         2. Proportional Representation.
         3. More Proportional Representation.
         4. Single Office Voting Systems: IRV.
         5. Other Single Office Voting Systems.
   5. Taking Action.
      1. Principles of Organization.
      2. Our Immediate Objectives.
         1. Restore Democracy First.
         2. Taking Them At Their Word: Equal Oportunity.
         3. Taking Them At Their Word: Reward Productivity.
         4. Taking Them At Their Word: What Would Jesus Do?
      3. The Future.
   6. Short Answers. The Radical Bleeding Heart in a Nutshell.
2. Radical Elfish Economics
   1. Why Economics?
   2. Economic Essentials.
      1. A Fantastic Diversion in the Form of a Travelogue.
   3. Two Fundamental Facts.
      1. An Important Digression on Social Security and Pensions.
         1. Taking Apart the Fable.
         2. Growth and the Luddites.
      2. Basics of Economic Production.
   4. Essential Facts about Money.
   5. Fairytales to Quiet the Elves.
      1. The Investment Fairytale.
      2. The Fantastic Tale of the Super-Elf.
   6. Sane Economics.
      1. Putting Workers First.
      2. Two Radical Proposals.
   7. In a Nutshell.
3. Musings of a Madman.
   1. Visiting the Nuthouse.
   2. Past Loonies.
   3. Sanity and Certainty.
   4. A Loonie Looks at Darwin.
      1. More on Certainty.
      2. The Logic of Darwinism.
   5. Minds and Brains
      1. Falsification
      2. The Implications of Scientism.
      3. The Mechanists' Answers
   6. The Mind.