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Highly recommended: Michael Huemer - Why People Are Irrational about Politics (even if I disagree with his moral objectivism at first sight)
My highlights:
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I have an idea for a system for collaborative knowledge construction by skeptics, meant to avoid bias.
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Here's a scarier link about techniques of persuasion, manipulation, hypnosis, etc. He characterizes the US Marines and revivalist churches as "brainwashing cults". Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today

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finally, via Google Ads:
The Theseus Learning System. Maybe I can make some money this way: selling software for critical-thinking education / idea refinement / writing. But my real interest is to create systems to enlighten real debates.

Let me be almost original and invent the phrase "epistemic hygiene".

Political Beliefs Survey, via

marknau

Interestingly, this quiz puts me on the "left". I think that's because there weren't many questions about markets, subsidies, etc. Note that "left/right" and "pragmatism" are just names to the dimensions found by principal component analysis.

Then again, I'm not really libertarian, I'm just pragmatic. This explains my high "pragmatism" score.

My results

Axis Position
1 left/right -2.9009 (-0.1746)
2 pragmatism +6.9402 (+0.4177)

While the means must be 0, I have no idea what the standard deviation is.

And, by the way, his results suggest that the "Right/Left" dimension accounts for most of the variance, while "Pragmatism". This goes against what one might suppose by taking the "World's Smallest Political Quiz".

here's my results on his 2005 quiz: