When I first started this blog, I had hopes that I could make it a group blog–not just because it would make the writing load easier on myself, but because there are a lot of areas that I find very interesting beyond my narrow personal and academic experience (e.g. science, law, philosophy). I was also much more foreign policy focused, in large part because foreign policy issues dominated politics at the time.
In the intervening years, I’ve alternated between neglecting the blog and occasionally dipping back in to write about some of those disparate issues. That’s required a lot of reading and, frankly, a lot of energy that isn’t as helpful to the (few, transient) readers of this blog. I don’t have the intellectual or policy experience that a lot of other bloggers have, and that makes my posts a lot less useful for making sense of an issue, something that I think is important if I’m going to add to the debate and not simply add to the noise.
That’s why I’ve decided to start blogging again while taking the blog in a different direction. As my blogroll suggests, I want to draw from a range of disciplines and approaches, and this is part of my comparative advantage. So I’m going to embrace my disparate intellectual interests and see if I can’t serve as a rough translator between disciplines and ideologies. Even if I don’t have the policy experience of the experts, I can make some of the disagreements and points of contention between philosophies and political positions clear and hopefully add to understanding even if I can’t provide answers. Here’s hoping some of you will stick around for it.
Sweet. Looking forward to it.
Andy by looking forward to it I mean I’m looking forward to your posts.
And by Andy, he means Corey.