Debate in a less webby format...

For a long time, I've hosted a mailing list called ctforum. It sprung up from a different mailing list, focused around an author by the name of Daniel Keys Moran. His books feature a repressive near-future government, a surprisingly-accurate depiction of the effect of computer and network technology on society, and an overdose of style. They are some of the best written books around, but they also hard to find. (If you're interested, I recommend starting with The Long Run, then Emerald Eyes, then The Last Dancer).

But at any rate, the mailing list had so much political discussion that a second list was formed to keep the topic separate. The participants are articulate, knowledgable, and mostly liberal (with a few exceptions, myself included). If you're finding that civilized debate with the honorable opposition is a rarity, than I invite you to join the discussion. You can look over some of the discussions in the list archives.

Since it's an old-style mailing list, you have to join it by email, rather than a web form. Send a message to ctforum-subscribe@lists.infodancer.org and reply to the confirmation message you are sent to join the list. Be aware that traffic is sporadic, but tends to be fairly high once it gets going.