All, I have an idea. :-)
We need *high-level*, *in-depth* analysis of issues. There are huge numbers of extremely bright people in our orbit. I am amazingly happy with the level of discussion, which has become extremely productive and extremely interesting, both on this list and in the CZ Forums. But...we are dealing with issues that are truly deep and complex. It is incredibly important that we get them *right*, and that we do so *now*, while policy is still relatively unsettled. What I think would be useful, then, is a forum whereby we can state our views in a way more careful than how we express them here. The papers would not (at least on my conception of the thing) have to be footnoted and scholarly, but they would have to be very carefully written and well composed--in short, edited, not off-the-cuff e-mails and posts. I have no time to do this myself. It would happen *only* if someone wanted to step forward and play the role of editor of this journal. "Publishing" can all take place via this list, at least to begin with. The words are important, not their presentation. The editor would set policy, post calls for papers and discussions, solicit papers from people who write interesting things in the forums or on this list, set deadlines, release papers, solicit replies, organize them (e.g., to begin with, links to them from a wiki page), etc. Maybe contributions could be blind reviewed (I'd leave that up to the editor), but they should be editor-vetted, anyway. If no one does step forward, that's all right; we will still be able to do a good job of thinking things through in the relatively informal means of discussion we have. But I do think it would help us get the *right* answers to some really important questions. --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
