White Smoke

I’ve written a script to turn on a light either red or blue depending on the US election result. I have reasons for this. They are obscure. I felt the need to elaborate and defend my life choices.

The Culture War Mechanism

Simon Wren-Lewis describes how the Conservative Party in the UK moved right on social issues to win elections, even though that moved them further from the centre. Which sounds impossible. This post uses a simple geometric model to show how that could work.