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Ideas should win on their arguments, not their volume.

Most political fights repeat the same few points forever, and nobody keeps score. Here each belief gets one page, with every reason for it and against it and the evidence under each reason. A reason nobody has backed up counts for nothing, however many times it is repeated; only a better argument or better evidence moves a score. 162 beliefs across 70 topics, eight of them worked all the way through: reasons both ways, evidence, yardsticks, predictions, costs and interests. Those come first in every list; the rest are drafts, each marked and saying what it still needs, because an argument somebody started is never thrown away. What each list means · how the scores are worked out.

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Every page on the site, by the words in it.

TopicsWhat this means →

Most argued: Government ethics, Taxes, Sports, Immigration, Military, Rights & Liberty, Democracy & Rule of Law, Trade

Arts & Humanities 8 beliefs

History (2), Literature (2), Philosophy (2), Photography (2)

Business & Economy 13 beliefs

Business (2), Consumer Protection (2), Energy (2), Finance (2), Jobs (2), Trade (3)

Computers & Internet 10 beliefs

Artificial Intelligence (2), Games (2), Internet (2), Privacy and Data (2), Software (2)

Education 10 beliefs

College and University (2), K-12 (4), Student Debt (2), Teaching (2)

Entertainment 8 beliefs

Humor (2), Movies (2), Music (2), Publishing (2)

Government 35 beliefs

Democracy & Rule of Law (5), Elections (2), Evidence & Process (3), Government ethics (5), Immigration (5), Law (2), Military (5), Rights & Liberty (4), Taxes (4)

Health 10 beliefs

Diseases (2), Drugs (2), Fitness (2), Health Insurance (2), Medicine (2)

News & Media 10 beliefs

Newspapers (2), Press Freedom (2), Radio (2), Social Media (2), Television (2)

Recreation & Sports 13 beliefs

Autos (2), Outdoors (2), Sports (7), Travel (2)

Reference 6 beliefs

Dictionaries (2), Quotations (2), Statistics (2)

Regional 9 beliefs

Cities (3), Countries (2), Regions (2), U.S. States (2)

Science 10 beliefs

Animals (2), Astronomy (2), Climate (2), Engineering (2), Physics (2)

Social Science 9 beliefs

Archaeology (2), Economics (1), Languages (2), Psychology (2), Sociology (2)

Society & Culture 11 beliefs

Core Principles (1), Crime and Justice (2), Environment (2), Family (2), People (2), Religion (2)

Every topic →

Beliefs filed by subject, like a library shelf; the busiest shelves first.

Best beliefsWhat this means →

#	Belief	Belief score
1	Letting Congress overturn a presidential pardon by a two-thirds vote of both chambers would reduce the use of the pardon power for private gain.	+0.39
2	Barring members of Congress and the president from owning or trading individual stocks would reduce the use of public office for private gain.	+0.32
3	Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive.	+0.27

All beliefs, ranked →

The best argued first, and fully worked pages before drafts.

Most argued overWhat this means →

#	Belief	Reasons
1	We should tax property by the value of the land itself, independent of what is or is not built on it. draft	44
2	Barring members of Congress and the president from owning or trading individual stocks would reduce the use of public office for private gain.	39
3	Letting Congress overturn a presidential pardon by a two-thirds vote of both chambers would reduce the use of the pardon power for private gain.	37

All 161 beliefs, by reasons argued →

The most reasons for and against, counted at every level beneath the belief.

Hardest to resolveWhat this means →

#	Belief	Kind of dispute
1	Barring members of Congress and the president from owning or trading individual stocks would reduce the use of public office for private gain.	Values conflict
2	Caitlin Clark's popularity owes more to her play than to her being white.	Mixed dispute
3	Letting Congress overturn a presidential pardon by a two-thirds vote of both chambers would reduce the use of the pardon power for private gain.	Mixed dispute

8 of 162 beliefs classified →

A disagreement over values first, because no measurement settles it; a factual one last, because one can.

Most relied onWhat this means →

#	Claim	Relied on
1	Voters need enough information to judge whether an official is compromised.	0.0009
2	Citizens need government decisions made on the merits rather than on what enriches the decider.	0.0008
3	Officials and their families need the same property rights and privacy as other citizens.	0.0007

All 100 most relied on →

The claims the most of this site depends on. The nearest thing to "popular" that can be measured here: nobody's votes or views are counted, so it says how much rests on a claim, not how many people like it.

What to argue nextWhat this means →

#	Claim	Work value
1	Liberty, personal responsibility and civic engagement each become distorted when pursued on their own.	0.0007
2	Liberty without responsibility turns into lawlessness, meaning freedom that contributes nothing and has no connection to other people.	0.0007
3	When responsibility is cut loose from liberty, the slogan "personal responsibility" gets used as a weapon to justify privilege and concentrate authority.	0.0007

All 40 claims, in order →

Where one more hour of work would move the most.

Who has a stakeWhat this means →

#	Who	Beliefs
1	Citizens Citizens need government decisions made on the merits rather than on what enriches the decider	7
2	Voters Voters need enough information to judge whether an official is compromised	6
3	Officials and their families Officials and their families need the same property rights and privacy as other citizens	5

All 224 groups →

The people with something at stake, ranked by how many beliefs touch them; under each, their best argued need.

Best books, studies and reportsWhat this means →

#	Work	Impact
1	Ziobrowski, Cheng, Boyd and Ziobrowski, Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate (2004) Study · supports Barring members of Congress and the president from owning o…	0.50
2	Insider, Conflicted Congress (2021 to 2023) Report · supports Barring members of Congress and the president from owning o…	0.50
3	Eggers and Hainmueller, Capitol Losses: The Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios (2013) Study · weakens Barring members of Congress and the president from owning o…	0.50

All 34 works, by kind →

Best, so far, means the works that moved these pages the most. What best ought to mean is a yardstick anyone can argue.

Changed in this revisionWhat this means →

#	Claim	Relied on
1	Caitlin Clark is the main reason WNBA attendance and television ratings rose sharply in 2024 and 2025.	0.0033
2	Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive.	0.0033
3	Leaving Caitlin Clark off the 2024 United States Olympic basketball team was the right call.	0.0033

All 262 changes, row by row →

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