{"id":4999,"date":"2006-07-04T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2006-07-04T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T13:27:20","slug":"the-objectivist-v-the-constructivist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the objectivist v. the constructivist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of professors have a <a href=\"http:\/\/ovsc.blogspot.com\/\">joint blog<\/a> in which they debate political issues from their opposing positions (respectively, libertarian and progressive). The tone tends to be &#8220;hot,&#8221; but the authors evidently enjoy the exchange and keep it going after the first volleys. Each post begins with a pair of essays that were first published in local newspapers, the Dunkirk-Fredonia (NY) <em>Observer<\/em> and the Jamestown (NY) <em>Post-Journal<\/em>. A nice example is their <a href=\"http:\/\/ovsc.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/debating-vouchers.html\">debate over school vouchers<\/a>. I was put off by the initial ad hominem characterization of people who oppose vounchers. (That&#8217;s my position, at least for now, yet I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m beholden to teachers&#8217; unions, ignorant of the facts, or hate kids.) However, both sides ultimately score some good points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of professors have a joint blog in which they debate political issues from their opposing positions (respectively, libertarian and progressive). The tone tends to be &#8220;hot,&#8221; but the authors evidently enjoy the exchange and keep it going after the first volleys. Each post begins with a pair of essays that were first published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}