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It's too hard to find the best interview questions. Even though it's widely acknowledged that "hiring right" is the make-or-break duty of every growing business, finding the perfect interview question requires sifting through a compendium of books, blogs, and brains.
As a boss, what I want is a broad list of great interview questions, organized by the quality I wish to evaluate (e.g., "hard worker," "focused," "team player"). So that's what I've compiled, below.
Read more about the methodology at the bottom of this post, following the questions. tl; dr it involved selectively extracting from all the best books and blog posts I could find in a week of research.
Part one: the most sought-after traits in employees
The most sought-after traits have been broken into four tiers, based on the frequency with which they were mentioned in first-page search results. If you only have an hour for your interview, you probably don't want to go very in-depth on more than 3 different areas. A popular strategy at bigger companies is to share different areas of evaluation between the team. It helps to ensure that you won't miss a fatal weakness of the applicant.
If you are going to interview collaboratively, remember that some questions are duplicated between sections. Don't be that interviewer who repeats a question from the previous interviewer.
Tier One
There is one talent that almost every blog & book regards as critical. Apparently, businesses don't want to hire a candidate that causes drama and resists management?
- Team player. Are they friendly, agreeable and upbeat?
Tier Two
These qualities were cited by 75% of publications surveyed, which is to say they are important to virtually every company. "Honesty" is one of the hardest qualities to evaluate in an interview context, but I've found a handful of questions to penetrate the interview defenses.
- Adaptable. Are they flexible and eager to learn?
- Trustworthy. Shun the crooks.
- Culture fit. Does their personality match the company's values?
Tier Three
Qualities that were mentioned by roughly half the sources surveyed. Many of the most critical talents Bonanza seeks are located here.
- Communicator. Do they know how to wield language and be tactful?
- Leadership. Does this candidate have the tools to be a leader?
- Ambitious. Every business wants a team that is self-motivated and hard-working
- Focused. Can they possibly eschew Facebook, Twitter, IM, Hacker News, et al. for eight hours?
- Problem-solving. Can they work autonomously, surmounting challenges and making decisions lacking manager intervention?
- Intelligent. Does this candidate have the raw smarts to be proficient at their job?
- Organized. Can they keep track of the details and prioritize among choices?
Tier Four
These qualities weren't mentioned as consistently across articles surveyed. It is my personal judgement that they are still important to assess, depending on the role being filled.
- Passionate. Are they excitable? Do they love their work?
- Creative. Can they figure out novel solutions to problems?
- Stable. Loyalty and dependability are essential to team morale.
- Invested in us. Have they done the homework on the company they're appyling to?
- Meat & potatoes. Miscellaneous questions not to forget.
Part 2: My favorite interview questions
This list is the culmination of a week spent combing the internet and popular books for great interview question. I have attempted to choose my favorite versions of the classic questions (e.g., "What's your weakness?") such that the version chosen gives the candidate the opportunity to talk in the realm of specific examples.
Do note: some questions apply to more than one category, so are listed more than once. Don't make a fool of yourself in a collaborative interview by asking the same question twice. Use your communication skills to coordinate questions with your teammates.
Team player, friendly, agreeable, upbeat
- What do you think makes a person likeable?
- How would a co-worker who likes you describe you?
- How would a co-worker who dislikes you describe you?
- What qualities in your co-workers bother you most? Do you appreciate most?
- If I were to ask your current boss what your greatest strength is, what would he or she tell me?
- What do you have Strong Opinions about?
- Describe the boss who would get the very best work from you.
- What changes have you made in working with others to be more effective at work?
- What could you have done to improve your relationship with your worst boss?
- What's a time you disagreed with a decision that was made by your boss? How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a co-worker, and how you handled it?
- How do you deal with a difficult customer?
- What do you feel an employer owes an employee?
- Give an example of a time you misjudged someone
- When was the last time you were angry?
- Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?
Adaptable, flexible, eager to learn
- What do you think are the most important attributes of successful people? How do you rate yourself in those areas?
- If you could change one thing about yourself by snapping your fingers, what would it be and why? Do you have a plan for
making that improvement?
- Tell me about competitor (or similar) businesses you kept up with in your past position. What did you glean from them?
- When have you failed? Describe what happened and what you learned from it.
- How do you take advantage of your strengths?
- How do you compensate for your weaknesses?
- What's the most interesting thing you've learned in the past year?
- If you were starting college today, what classes would you take? (Alternative: What would you like to learn more about in the next year?)
- What books are you reading? (Alternative: What industry publications are your favorites?)
- Tell me about the last time you took a risk? Was it the right decision? What did you learn?
- How do you keep up with changes in your field?
- What was the most useful criticism you received?
- How do you measure your own success?
Trustworthy, honest
- Have you worked in a position where you felt you weren't given enough to do?
- What was the most useful criticism you received?
- If I were to ask your current boss what your greatest weakness was, what would he or she tell me?
- Tell me about the last time you had to make an unpopular decision
- When have you failed? Describe what happened and what you learned from it.
- Tell me about a work incident in which you were totally honest, despite a potential risk or downside.
- What's your greatest fear about this opportunity?
- Where does your boss think you are now? [Ed: answer doesn't matter, smell of truthfulness in response does]
- If I looked through your web browser history, what would I learn that isn't on your resume?
- Tell me about some of the gaps in your employment. How did these come about?
- May I contact your current employer? May I contact your references?
- Why shouldn't I hire you?
Culture fit, compatible personality
- Describe the boss who would get the very best work from you
- What will make you love coming to work here everyday?
- What type of work environment do you prefer?
- What gets you excited outside of work?
- If I looked through your web browser history, what would I learn that isn't on your resume?
- Assume that you come to work here. One year from now you go home one Friday evening thinking that accepting this job was the best thing you ever did. What happened during the year for you to feel that way?
- How much time per week do you spend working alone? Do you think it should be more or less?
- How competitive are you?
- Do you have a favorite quote?
- What unique experiences separate you from other candidates?
- What are the most important rewards you expect to get from your career?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- Which areas of your work are most often praised?
- Tell me about the funniest role you've had on a job/project?
- When you are on vacation, what do you miss most about work?
- How would you describe yourself to a stranger at a party?
- How do you incorporate fun into your day?
Communicator, tactful
See also: "Team player"
- Why are you leaving your current job?
- Have you given presentations to your peers, either at work or in other contexts?
- See that picture frame on the wall? Sell it to me.
- What's a time you disagreed with a decision that was made by your boss? (Alternate: If you know your boss is 100% wrong about something, how would you handle it?)
- If you feel strongly about an idea, but a person doesn't agree with you, what tactics would you use to persuade them?
- What's your greatest fear about this opportunity?
- Describe a time where you put in extra effort to make sure a person with whom you were communicating had really understood your point.
- Describe a situation in which you dealt with a difficult customer
- Why shouldn't we hire you?
- What do you think we could do better or differently?
- How do you motivate people?
- What do you think are the most important attributes of successful leaders?
- Tell me about the last time you had to make an unpopular decision
- Tell me about the last time you fired someone
- How do you decide what tasks to delegate to whom?
- How do you bring other team members into your process? (Alternate: How do you get others on board with your decisions?)
- Did you inaugurate new processes in your previous position? Tell me about them
- Have you been in charge of a budget? How did you balance priorities?
- What's the most difficult part of being a manager for you?
- What do your reports find most difficult about your management style?
- How do you set expectations with your reports or peers? How do you handle a situation where a report fails to meet expectations (e.g., consistently missing deadlines)?
- Describe a situation where you successfully resolved a conflict with a team member.
- Would you rather be liked or feared?
- Describe a crisis you faced at work. What was your role? How did you resolve it? What were the results?
- Do you have a management philosophy? No.
Ambitious, self-motivated, hard-working
See also: "Invested in us"
- What would your first 30, 60, 90 days look like in this role?
- What extracurricular activities were you involved with in college? Since?
- What side projects have you done? What was the biggest?
- Have you been promoted in past jobs? How did these promotions come about?
- Describe a situation in your past job where you were proactive? (Alternate: Give me an example from a previous job where you've shown initiative)
- When did you first start doing [the job's requirement]? [Ed note: if they started doing it before required in school, suggests self-starter]
- How do you keep up with changes in your field?
- How competitive are you?
- What are your short range goals and objectives?
- Give me an example of a goal you set in the past and how you went about reaching it?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- Do you take work home with you?
- How ambitious are you? No.
Focused, tenacious
- What are your strategies for making the most of your day?
- What do you do when things are slow? (You are lacking for projects)
- What do you do when you're burned out to rekindle your spark?
- If you're struggling with an idea, how do you break through and find a solution?
- How do you pass time while waiting for [job specific pause point, like compiling a program]?
- Describe a time where you put in extra effort to improve a business process to be more efficient?
- What percentage of your time is spent on each of your job responsibilities? [Answer matters less than whether they seem to keep track of it]
Problem-solving, self-sufficient, autonomous, decisive
See also: "creative."
- Describe a time when you were asked to do something you weren't trained to do. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when you made a decision without all the information you needed.
- Can you tell me about a time when you discovered a more efficient way to do a routine task? Have you done this repeatedly?
- What are some of the Google tricks you use to find answers to your questions?
- How do you decide whether to message your boss when you have a tough problem?
- How many dentists are there in Poland?
- How would you build a toaster for a blind person?
- See that picture frame on the wall? Sell it to me.
- Tell me about the last time you took a risk? Was it the right decision? What would you have done differently?
- Can you think of a time where you were forced to take charge when your manager wasn't available?
- Have you worked in a position where you felt you weren't given enough to do?
- What was the most important task you've ever had?
Intelligent, proficient, competent
- What are you especially good at compared to others?
- Have you been promoted in past jobs? How did these promotions come about?
- What's the one accomplishment you're most proud of? Why?
- What is your greatest professional achievement?
- What's your greatest fear about this opportunity?
- How would you rate yourself in terms of speed, quality, and self-direction? [Ed: Can they answer a multi-part question?]
- In what college courses did you get the worst grades? Why? How do you think it'll effect your job performance?
- Tell me about the last time you took a risk? Was it the right decision? What would you have done differently?
- What do you consider to be the most important aspect of your craft?
- What do you consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of your craft?
- If I asked a co-worker friend what made you most valuable to the team, what would they say?
Organized, detail-oriented
- What would your first 30, 60, or 90 days look like in this role?
- Tell me about the first 60 minutes of your typical day
- What are your strategies for making the most of your day?
- Have you been in charge of a budget? How did you balance priorities?
- What do you do when you begin a project? How does this help the project go successfully?
- What tools do you use to maintain organization? How do you keep lists?
- Tell me about a project where you noticed a small detail that made a big difference?
- What percentage of your time is spent on each of your job responsibilities?
- Describe the top of your desk
- Do you always double-check your work? What's your system for deciding?
Passionate, excitable
- What excites you about our company?
- What gets you excited outside of work?
- Describe the boss who would get the very best work from you.
- What are the most important rewards you expect to get from your career?
- If you had unlimited money, what would you be doing?
- Tell me about the last time you took a risk? Was it the right decision? What would you have done differently?
- Tell me about the last time you found a unique solution to a long-standing problem.
- Tell me about the last time you figured out how to save your company money? Did they heed your advice?
- Did you inaugurate new processes in your previous position?
- What improvements might you make to our business?
- Where do you draw inspiration for your craft from?
Stable, loyal, dependable
- Why are you leaving current job? Have you brought your concerns with your job to the attention of your boss?
- Is this the first time you've thought about leaving? What made you stay before?
- Why have you had so many jobs?
- How do we know you'll stick around?
- Will your current job be surprised to hear you're leaving?
- What aspect of our job appeals to you least?
- How does your ideal job stack up to what we're offering?
- Have you been absent from work more than a few days in any previous position?
Invested in us
- What about this job most excites you?
- What about this company most excites you? (Alternative: What do you know about the company?)
- What do you think we could do better or differently?
- What advantage do we have over our competitors? (Who are our competitors?)
- How does your ideal job stack up to what we're offering?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- What criteria are you using to choose companies you interview with?
Misc, administrative
- Tell me about yourself
- Which areas of your work are most often praised?
- Is there any question I haven't asked you that I should?
- Salary range expectations?
- When can you start?
- Are you considering other offers?
Settling on the definition for what makes a "great" interview question is a subjective affair. There were a couple rules I applied. I wanted questions that lead the candidate to talk about a specific example; questions like "what's your management style?" (a common question amongst my sources [1]) are too vague to expect worthwhile insights in return. When in doubt, I considered whether I would be annoyed to get asked the question in an interview (e.g., "Give us one word that describes you"). If so, it's not on the list. 80% of questions evaluated are not on the list.
Once I decided what I was after, I purchased a handful of Amazon's top-rated interview books, and visited tens of Google's top ranked pages on interviewing. Most of my sources are linked in the footnotes [1][2].
Building a dataset from my research, I sought to make two determinations:
- What are the top 15 qualities that employers seek in an employee?
- What are the most succinct questions to evaluate those qualities?
The first goal was tricky, because often, sources will refer to the same idea in slightly different ways (e.g., "adaptable," "flexible," or "willing to learn"). Some qualities, like "problem-solving" and "creative" feel distinct, but related. In these cases, I added links between the two categories to help the reader find related questions.
Still here? Hello!
I'd wager you would pass the "hard-working" and "tenacious" evaluation phases of the interview. So why not check out the many jobs Bonanza is hiring for at the moment? Everyone loves an interview where they know the questions in advance.
Also: if you have a favorite interview question that I haven't listed here, please share it in the comments! Around 10% of the questions above were from my personal collection, indicating there are likely still more good questions lurking out there.
[1] Bibliography:
- Good friends: Alan Talanoa, Landon Schropp, James Spence
- How to answer 31 most common interview Qs (TheMuse.com)
- Twenty Five Great Interview Qs (AbcNews, Bob Rosner)
- 101 Great Answers to Toughest Interview Qs (Ron Fry)
- Winning Answers to 500 Interview Qs (Lavie Margolin and Rachel Miller)
- Personality Traits to get Hired (via CareerBuilder 2014 study)
- Seven qualities looked for in candidates
- What do employers really want?
- Top skills and values employers look for
- 15 traits employers look for
[2] I didn't start documenting until around half way through my research, so the list isn't quite comprehensive


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An Unconventional Approach: Since Political Conventions Have Become Television Extravaganzas Rather Than News Events, Let's Assign Some Critics to Cover Them
Smolkin, Rachel, American Journalism Review
Clone Tom Shales.
The wisecracking Washington Post TV critic and curmudgeon brings a fresh eye to convention coverage that too often is listless and predictable. Cloning him, or at least expanding the use of TV critics and their valuable perspective, could provide a powerful antidote four years from now to convention coverage begging for an overhaul.
Incessantly, in print and on television, journalists' dried voices rasped together this summer like T.S. Eliot's hollow men, decrying the futility of political conventions. The broadcast networks, to their eternal discredit, nearly abandoned coverage of a forum for communicating with voters that only occurs every four years. Nothing ever happens anymore, journalists and pundits mourned. It is all scripted, predictable, dull.
They are right, of course. Breaking news is painfully scarce. The days of gripping melees on the convention floor and secret machinations in smoke-filled rooms have given way to melodramatic televised testimonials. Unlike in 1960, the nomination of the current JFK was a foregone conclusion months before Democrats convened. Despite deep party divisions over the war in Iraq, fissures never disrupted the Democrats' convention, a la 1968.
But having correctly diagnosed the changes in conventions, many journalists proceed to two flawed corollaries: 1) Convention coverage is less important than it used to be; and 2) Journalists should continue to cover conventions as breaking news, just as they always have, even though there is no breaking news.
With a few exceptions, such as the Post's Shales, journalists have missed an opportunity to adapt their convention coverage to changing times. Bombarded by Swift boat ads, wardrobe malfunctions and graphic whackings on "The Sopranos," voters are far more sophisticated about TV than when the original JFK basked as the medium's first political star. And for voters who live outside coveted swing states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, TV is probably the only place they'll be able to observe the candidates--making intelligent analysis of a presidential hopeful's performance in this medium more, not less, important.
Conventions, in their current incarnation as made-for-TV events, should be treated as such and analyzed within that framework. Journalists understand the scripted nature of conventions well enough to carp about it, but they continue to treat conventions' stagecraft as an asterisk to coverage rather than its core.
Perhaps the best insight into this failing comes from National Journal media critic William Powers, who argued in a February 7 column that something was "deeply wrong with the campaign coverage." He suggested that the media stumble in getting at "that very public space where candidates go to connect with the mass of voters"--the media itself. Elaborating in a March telephone interview, Powers said, "We haven't figured out how to cover the interaction candidates are having through the media with the broad public."
Political conventions provide a singular opportunity to correct this failing, not by replacing traditional political coverage but by enhancing it. Conventions rely on mass communication, but the media too often overlook a group of journalists who specialize in critiquing just that. …


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Skip to comments.The Antifederalists Were Right
Posted on 05/22/2010 3:40:40 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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That's a great article!!! Brutus was certainly right. Thanks for posting!
The framers of the Constitution did not foresee the possibility of an anti-American president who would need to be removed immediately by an impeachment originating from among a majority of the populace, not the House of representatives. Now we see the flaw.
Robert Yates a Yankee I can agree with!
One of the most insightful of the Antifederalists was Robert Yates, a New York judge who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, withdrew because the convention was exceeding its instructions. Yates wrote as Brutus in the debates over the Constitution. Given his experience as a judge, his claim that the Supreme Court would become a source of almost unlimited federal over-reaching was particularly insightful.
History furnishes no example of a free republic, anything like the extent of the United States. The Grecian republics were of small extent; so also was that of the Romans. Both of these, it is true, in process of time, extended their conquests over large territories of country; and the consequence was, that their governments were changed from that of free governments to those of the most tyrannical that ever existed in the world.
-- Robert Yates
We have to post the entire Anti-Federalist papers on Free Republic!
Good read thank you for posting.
Anti-Federalist Bump!
Patrick Henry - "The rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press, all your immunities and franchises, all pretensions to human rights and privileges, are rendered insecure, if not lost, by this change, so loudly talked of by some, and inconsiderately by others."
Also, the necessity of a virtuous electorate to the continuance of our republic was widely discussed at the time. An immoral people will elect dirtbags. We've got the government we deserve, not the one designed by our Framers.
We now live in a color coded anti-white male feminized society that has been rubber stamped by the Supreme Disappointment. A Constitution not followed is worse than no Constitution at all. This state of affairs breeds contempt for the government in the intelligent, and a sentimental belief in the phony protections it was supposed to have in the weak minded. As such, the Constitution now provides a fig leaf for the naked aggression of the socialist statist agenda.
Also, why do we look to the failed systems of the past to point to the way it should be? And I don't see any suggestion of a better way proposed. 50 independent states without an elected central system is called Europe. Ours has been the most successful system yet, and all it needs is a few patriots with balls to set it right again! It is not irreparable; it is in need of some serious house-cleaning and return to the Founders' guiding intentions.
" did not foresee the possibility of an anti-American president "
Unfortunately, the "all we gotta do is get rid of Obama" solution is a non-solution which completely misses the point...
Obama did not spring whole from the Earth brandishing his terrible swift sword to bring about the ruination of our once-great nation — he is merely the culmination, the current manifestation, of a process which, the author of this article says - correctly, IMO - traces its roots to flaws in the original Constitution, and began in earnest with the 14th amendment....
The removal of the current claque is necessary, but only as a step towards addressing the core problems that brought us to this sorry state...
/my $0.02
FReeper Book Club: The Debate over the Constitution, Federalist #21
A Publius/Billthedrill Essay | 20 May 2010 | Publius & Billthedrill
We will post two threads per week, every Monday and Thursday, starting February 1, for 55 weeks. Again, we will use the keyword freeperbookclub to mark these threads.
What is old has become new again. Its time to explore federalism and the philosophy of the Framers. The lessons of 1787 are just as valid today.
The thing that gets me is how the power hungry mobsters can use the Antifederalist criticisms as a plan. The intent was well documented as well as what not to do. We have to contend with the fact that what's been done wrong was done knowing it to be wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
That's a tagline.
Something left out of these threads is that some powerful people had a personal interest in the continuance of the anarchy under the Articles. Most prominent were southern planters with pre-war debts to English creditors. Without a federal judiciary, these debts could not be collected in accordance with the peace treaty.
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With all honesty, the Anti-Federalists were correct. When studying the Anti-Federalist while attending Georgetown, their main problem was - "organization". They were not as organized as Hamilton, Madison ,and Jay -
"The Federalists".
Rarely are the Anti-Federalist discussed in Constitutional Law classes. Anti- Federalist books should be read time and time again by Conservatives.
In 1988, I was privileged to be asked to write the Introduction to the reprint of Robert Yates' Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention to Form the US Constitution. Judge Yates was the leading Anti-Federalist, and sought to defeat the Constitution in Philadelphia, and later in the New York Ratification Convention.
That lengthy Introduction pointed out that the ratification nearly failed in both Virginia and New York. Most importantly, it pointed out that the claims of the Anti-Federalists were coming true not in their time, but in ours.
Though it was written almost a quarter century ago, I stand by every word of that. And, BTW, it was not just the Anti-Federalists who feared an over-reaching federal judiciary. Thomas Jefferson called it "the most dangerous branch," and gave his reasons.
John / Billybob / Ben
Always remember - People may die, but ideas live for ever. The philosophies from the Ancient Greeks are still with us and the Marxist(Liberals) prove daily their ideas are not new, but they progressively push their agenda in order to get those old ideas in place.
Study James Madison - he is the one who read and researched the older philophies of John Locke and others. Study John Locke's writings on Social Contract. My students are taught about all of these men and their ideas.
Most of all, the time has come for the Conservatives to be as "dogmatic" as the Marxist. The question is - "Do we Conservatives believe our ideas and agenda are greater than that of the Marxist"? Are Conservatives willing to do whatever has to be done to win in the end?
" restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. "
While it's virtually, and morally, impossible to 'legislate common sense', it would be possible to mitigate the power of the fools by returning, somehow, (and exactly 'how', I must leave to those smarter than I..) to the system which limits, if not eliminates, the ability of the populace to vote largesse for itself from the public coffers....
I see freedom of the press as protecting a right to publish and not some profession or industry.
And extolling the virtues of the Anti-federalist ideas ignores the simple fact that they came up with absolutely nothing. They never produced a document, an "Anti-federalist Constitution", either before, during, or after the adoption of the Constitution. What prevented them from holding their own Constitutional convention, even after the Constitution actually went into effect and proposing their own, better document?
I'm reminded of Churchill's statement: "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
So it is with the Constitution: the worst organizational document, except for all the others proposed. The only other document that was ever come up with was the Articles of Confederation, and its flaws were what led to the Constitution.
In the end there are two types of Anti-federalists:
1) those that have come up with something better,
2) the critics, whiners and complainers.
So far there are no Anti-federalists who qualify for 1).
Perhaps it is long past time for Anti-federalists to actually come up with a document.
"The anti-federalists also got a lot wrong."
Exactly!! The US Constitution is a brilliant document. It works well....when followed.
Our decay is spiritual and moral. This is the root of our problems.
Ya see, that's the kind of thinkin' ya get when people actually study real history, instead of "social studies"! Lucky the libs are taking care of that! (I don't really need the /s tag, do I?)
In fact, although they didn't explicitly mention the possibility that you site, the anti-Federalists DID see the flaw.
All of the problems originated long before Obama. He is nothing more than a symptom of it...a figurehead.
I agree with your post, except for one part. I don't think we would be 50 independent countries. I think we would be 13 colonies reconquered by Britain.
The problem of our having an electorate which allows tyranny because it is capable of electing "liberal" Democrats in general and Barak Obama in particular is, IMHO, the problem of transcending the emotional appeals of Sophists. It should be recalled that the answer to an opponent who claims superior wisdom is not to get into a "he said, she said" contest with them but to adopt the stance of the philosopher. The philosopher does not claim superior wisdom, but claims only to love wisdom. That constitutes a challenge to the sophist to stick to facts and logic.
It is common, even on FR, for people to accept the premise that Fox News Channel is conservative and that other journalism is "objective." A recent example, and my response, follows:
Democrats are cowards for refusing to go on Fox. They would be glad to, if they had facts and logic rather than showmanship behind their snake oil, but they don't - so they stay away from the exposure. The trouble with going on Fox is that you will be asked the second question. If you have the facts and logic to back up your case, that's no problem. Conservatives do have facts and logic behind their cases; it is their defining characteristic.and then turn around and call republicans stupid for going on any of the other networks.
Journalism as we know it did not exist until the era of the Civil War. Prior to that, newspapers were fractiously independent of each other, and didn't accept claims that competing newspapers' reporters were objective. In fact, the newspapers of the pre-Civil War era were more like National Review than like The New York Times. Most were weeklies, and some had no deadline at all and just went to press when the printer decided he was ready. More than modern "hard news," they were about the opinions of their printers. Presses of that ilk naturally were ordinarily associated with political parties. The whole paper was what we'd now think of as an editorial page - and the printers couldn't and didn't try to make that a secret. That was the milieu when the First Amendment was written and ratified.Its hypocritical and pathetic.What changed that?
The telegraph. The telegraph, and the Associated Press. Suddenly the printer had available to him a font of news stories to which his readership could not be privy before he printed them. A wonderful thing for the printer of a paper! But, at a price. It was expensive in money, and the printer needed to get value out of his AP newswire. How to do that, when the printer didn't employ, didn't even know, the reporters who produced the cornucopia of newswire stories? How to vouch for the veracity of the stories? Simple - you simply launch a propaganda campaign to the effect that all reporters are objective!
Here's a news flash for you: journalists actually aren't objective! How do I know? Well, you can do a lot of ponderous research, such as (A Measure of Media Bias (research shows Drudge/Fox centrist, NYT far liberal) ), to prove it - but you need not expect that journalists will do anything but stonewall the results, no matter how thorough the research might be. Far simpler to just be direct - journalists are not objective because they say that they are objective. Simple - the only way anyone can even attempt to be objective is to start your analysis with an up-front declaration of your own interest in the question you are analyzing. If you are arguing that more roads should be built, you declare up front if your father-in-law would be the one to build them, and you would even declare your ownership of a car which would be more useful if there were more roads. Declaring your own objectivity is the precise opposite of that, so you should take it for granted that journalists who never declare anything but their own "objecitivity" are not merely not objective, they are heavily biased.
What is the inherent bias of journalism? Simple again - journalists are biased in favor of the notion that journalists are heroes. In Mark Steyn's expression, they are cardboard heroes - great at attacking "dastardly villains" such as bankers who actually pose no threat, but impotent and cowardly in the presence of actual villains such as ruthless terrorists who'll behead you for crossing them. Cowards who boast that "you never argue with someone who buys ink by the carload" - and then pick on some poor defenseless schlub precisely because he can't effectively argue back, and wouldn't hurt a fly anyway.
How does that bias of journalism play into politics? Simple again - "liberal" politicians are those who cooperate with journalists and essentially exist in symbiosis with them. You can tell that by the way journalists give them positive labels. Americans favored liberalism - which was a word for the advocacy of liberty - so journalists began to call politicians in symbiosis with them "liberals." The meaning of the word "liberal" was inverted in the 1920s, according to Saffire's New Political Dictionary. Journalists also, alternatively, call politicians in symbiosis with them "progressives." What American doesn't favor progress? And as to the label applied to "liberals'" opponents, well, I'll believe that "conservative" is intended as a positive label as soon as you convince me that marketers don't want to label their products New!
Ann Coulter has pointed out that if she goes on a book tour and is put on TV, journalists always "balance" her with one (usually more than one) "liberal" commentator to argue with her. in addition to the "objective journalist" him/herself, who will always attack as well (the usual result is that Ann has to really fight to get a word in edgewise - and as quick-tongued as she is, that's saying something). If a "liberal" goes on a book tour, when have you ever seen him/her "balanced" by a conservative? When have you ever seen him/her attacked by the "objective" journalist?
In reality "objective" journalists are sophists - and, in the original sense of the term, conservative politicians and analysts are philosophers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2518098/postsNot only is there no hypocrisy involved in advocating that conservative politicians go on Fox but keep the "objective" journalist at arm's length, it is IMHO actually pathetic to think that they are obligated to do otherwise.
A constitutional revival, IMHO, must begin with the recognition - first by the courts, and then by the public - that the government is not a safe repository for the judgement of what is, and what is not, "objectivity." With all that that implies for the authority of "Campaign Finance Reform" and the "Federal Communication Commission."
"If ever a man debauched a nation, George Washington debauched the United States." That's not journalism. That's opinion, boldly stated. And that's what the early American press largely deal it.
It was as raucous as the supermarket tabloids today. All the surviving early newspapers are available in the Madison Building, across the street from the Jefferson Building, main building of the Library of Congress.
John / Billybob / Ben
You're probably right. I am guilty of optimism in my weaker moments. Can't wait for November so I can assess just how much trouble we are in.
Earlier threads:
FReeper Book Club: The Debate over the Constitution
5 Oct 1787, Centinel #1
6 Oct 1787, James Wilsons Speech at the State House
8 Oct 1787, Federal Farmer #1
9 Oct 1787, Federal Farmer #2
18 Oct 1787, Brutus #1
22 Oct 1787, John DeWitt #1
27 Oct 1787, John DeWitt #2
27 Oct 1787, Federalist #1
31 Oct 1787, Federalist #2
3 Nov 1787, Federalist #3
5 Nov 1787, John DeWitt #3
7 Nov 1787, Federalist #4
10 Nov 1787, Federalist #5
14 Nov 1787, Federalist #6
15 Nov 1787, Federalist #7
20 Nov 1787, Federalist #8
21 Nov 1787, Federalist #9
23 Nov 1787, Federalist #10
24 Nov 1787, Federalist #11
27 Nov 1787, Federalist #12
27 Nov 1787, Cato #5
28 Nov 1787, Federalist #13
29 Nov 1787, Brutus #4
30 Nov 1787, Federalist #14
1 Dec 1787, Federalist #15
4 Dec 1787, Federalist #16
5 Dec 1787, Federalist #17
7 Dec 1787, Federalist #18
8 Dec 1787, Federalist #19
11 Dec 1787, Federalist #20
12 Dec 1787, Federalist #21
Over here!
Publius has a biweekly thread on the Federalist papers.
All the surviving early newspapers are available in the Madison Building, across the street from the Jefferson Building, main building of the Library of Congress.
It would be fascinating if they were on the WWW!
With the nomination of Rand Paul, the neo-confederates are feeling their oats.
Go back even earlier than Locke, and read Hobbes..(leviathan, et al)..Madison was certainly the cerebral member of the bunch, but Adams (John) was also well read and understood well the lessons of history.....he has taken a rough rap from history, however, primarily due to his early loyalty to King George.
I do tend to agree with much the antt-federalists argued about, although it is clear that the Federalist group never considered the possibility, and eventuality, of life-long politicians, such as we have today..it was dismissed as folly...after all, what kind of person would want to make a career of that?? As such, the Federalists were proven to be right on most of their concerns.
As Franklin so eloquently said, when asked what they had accomplished in the continental congress..."a republic, if you can keep it"
Great article.
The antifederalists were certainly right—the central government behemoth we now have is undeniably authoritarian and is supra-constitutional. It has been a slow but inexorable march to tyranny, with occasion periods of sharp racheting up of central government power (e.g., King Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, Ohaha).
May the Lord's grace preserve our nation and return us to the limited government our forefathers thought they were bequeating us.
The real problem for the modern analyst is that both sides had very good points, and they weren't often arguing about the same things. Hamilton's case for a strong central government was bolstered by the strong historical suggestion that those nations without one tended to have their futures dictated by those who had one. The anti-Federalists replied that even were this the case, the proposed Constitution contained in it the seeds of a despotism with potential expressions of power that would be abusive and in excess of that necessary to maintain independence in a hostile world.
Where the anti-Federalists seemed to be at their best was in the arena of enumerated powers, more specifically how best to ensure that the government would not exceed them. Hamilton insisted that the very structure of the Constitution made it impossible for the government to exceed them - the government had, in his view, no possible way to do so. The anti-Federalists thought this approach the political equivalent of fairy-dust and with two centuries of hindsight we can hardly disagree. That was, however, one argument for the existence of a Bill of Rights, an argument shared by thinkers on both sides of the debate. But not Hamilton, who pointed out that such a Bill would tend to imply that those rights enumerated were the only ones the people possessed, a point of view which those same two centuries of hindsight will also uphold. That the very ones specified in such a Bill of Rights would also be encroached upon was not something either side cared to contemplate, although those two centuries of hindsight sometimes make us with that they had.
Great stuff. It is a bit questionable how much influence the furious debate in three New York newspapers that is the Federalist Papers had on the ultimate ratification, but there really isn't anything quite like them for articulating the point-counterpoint that had already taken place in the writing of the Constitution. That there even is a Bill of Rights is largely a consequence of this controversy.
What amazes me personally is how timely and relevant these same issues continue to be two centuries later. We're still fighting about the same things, and perhaps this is one secret to the Constitution's longevity. Even long-lived things can be killed by determined enemies. Sometimes they can be kept alive by equally determined friends.
All are encouraged to join Publius and me for a twice-weekly discussion of the Federalist Papers and the anti-Federalist replies. Every little bump helps.
Jacquerie: The anti-federalists also got a lot wrong.
Could you point out a few or is that an oblique reference to the Articles of Confederation? Does it strike you as ironic that many of the anti's arguments are the same ones we hear from consertatives today? Even so, revisionist histories have left us with little meat to actually chew on when considering the pros and cons of the Articles. Historians would have us believe the Articles were a complete and total failure, which is patently false. Did the Federalists, who of course wanted an overbearing NATIONAL government hoodwink the anti delegates into believing the convention had been called to tweak the Articles? Can you say "budding progressives"???
The Articles were treaties between sovereign states, not a government.
In the north, the deadbeats of Shay's rebellion were demanding the state inflate the currency and allow debtors to pay off debts in whatever they had on hand (corn, pigs, whatever).
A corrupt southern aristocracy which had refused to sell off British property in lots even the middle class (what existed of a middle class in the south) could afford were getting out of their debts by running to judges. Everything the colonies had fought for in the Revolution was about to turn into mob rule and a fractious economic race to the bottom as each state positioned itself fight other states.
The Federalists stopped all that from happening...for a while. Delegated powers were not enough to stop centralization but it did postpone it for generations.
The real error, the original sin of the Constitution, was allowing for purposes of representation, slaves to be counted as 3/5ths of a person. That allowed the corrupt aristocracy Jefferson represented which had allied itself with an ignorant underclass and a venal press to wipe out what the federalists had created. Fisher Ames, a Federalist who was critical to the ratification of the constitution and who drafted the first amendment wrote in 1805:
Federalism was therefore manifestly founded upon a mistake, on the supposed existence of sufficient political virtue, and on the permanency and authority of the public morals. The party now in power committed no such mistake. They acted upon what men actually are, not what they ought to be . . .They inflamed the ignorant; they flattered the vain; they offered novelty to the restless; and promised plunder to the base. The envious were assured that the great should fall; and the ambitious that they should become great . . . we are descending from a supposed orderly and stable republican government into a licentious democracy . . .The Federalists weren't the problem. The Jeffersonians were. Look at what Ames wrote. He's describing the Democratic party of today.
Thanks for your reply. I have gone back further. Some of the ideas from the left go as far back as Ancient Greece. One of my passions is studying history. The other passion is studying and understanding Constitutional Law. :)
Thanks Again!
Ridiculous. First, the antifederalists (the real federalists) had a document--The Articles of Confederation.
Second, the delegates in Philly were sent to the convention to fix the Articles by adding a few specific powers--they weren't supposed to create a new system. In other words, the antifeds had already offered their ideas and sent delegates to act on those ideas.
Third, The antifeds didn't create a constitution because they were against consolidating the government. They believed in a union of states--not a single, unified, consolidated, supreme government.
Finally, they didn't hold a convention after ratification because they had lost the political battle. Most antifeds followed Patrick Henry's example. Once the Constitution was ratified, they accepted it and moved on.
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- scientific review committee
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- A group of doctors, scientists, and other experts that reviews the detailed plan of a clinical trial for scientific quality and correct study design. There is a scientific review committee at every health care facility that does clinical research. Most clinical trials are reviewed by the scientific review committee before they go to the facility's Institutional Review Board (IRB) for approval. Also called scientific review panel.


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another photo of Marcie
I've posted this on my Instagram account as well (instagram.com/ozoozou)
photo by: Elise M. S. / oomizuao 2013
model: Marcie the French Bulldog
So cute just makes me wanna cry
Look at the face!
Daww... ^^
He's so cute!
cute puppy! <3
Dawwwwww!!!!!! Cute.
Good-lookin' dog.
awes, what a darling face !
cute little girl
cute little girl
Aww! Marcie's so cute.
Oh my gahhhhhhh how cute! We considered a Frenchie before we went with an English instead. She's so cute. c:
How adorable!
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cute doggie!
I want to hug!
D'awww she's so cute
please stop staring into my soul
puppies :yay:
ohh what a pretty dog :3
She's so cute! I love her big, dark eyes. ;__; How old is she?
She's a pretty dog.


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"Curitiba" Top 5 Page for this destination Curitiba by randychiara
Curitiba Travel Guide: 198 reviews and 459 photos
Curitiba, standing some 3,000 feet (914 meters) above sea level on the plateau of Serra do Mar, is the capital of the progressive state of Parana. Since the late 1800's, Curitiba's bracing climate and picturesque location have attracted immigrants of Slav, German, and Italian origin. Curitiba grew rapidly after 1950 and it is known for the sensible manner in which it became a major city without losing a comfortable life-style. The city derives its economic prosperity from its role as commercial and processing center for the expanding agricultural and ranch areas in the interior of the state. The population of this environmentally conscious capital has about 1,500,000 inhabitants.
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it's funny cos i was speaking German to this half brasilian half german friends ihihih
a LOT of people speak german at home in this city
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new to me, and will be reading up on Curitiba ;-)))
Nice page on Curitiba... I really miss it sometimes, specially because I used to call it home... Bye, Alex
well people don't know what they talk about, when talking about the 3rd world...they have no idea or are ignorant, Curitiba has always been a wonderful place I have fond memos of....thank you for the refreshing page...we could speak german together
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Yes, Curitiba is really a very nice and clean place, brazilians should be proud of..no matter what other's say!
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Posted in thread: HomeBrewTalk 2012 Big Giveaway on 02-09-2012 at 07:00 AM
I'll give it a shot.
Posted in thread: IPL? (India Pale Lager) on 10-27-2011 at 06:44 PM
Vicotory Prima Pils is also another great example of a smooth, hoppy pilsner with moderate
Posted in thread: So who's brewing this weekend? on 02-27-2011 at 06:48 PM
Brewing a Southern English brown right nowHit my mash temps spot on, it's a beautiful balmy 57
in New Jersey, what a day!
Posted in thread: Starter ERUPTION on 02-25-2011 at 06:03 PM
That's what I figured, I just feel like a doofus for messing up what was my best looking
starter...As for your concern MTBfreak03, I'm not sure. I generally don't get any krausen on my
starters, so it...
Posted in thread: Starter ERUPTION on 02-25-2011 at 05:31 PM
Its for a five gallon batch and I pitched one smack pack.What do you mean there is a surprising
amount of yeast in the liquid? Isn't that mostly what I lost then?Thanks for the quick
Posted in thread: Starter ERUPTION on 02-25-2011 at 05:24 PM
Hey guys,So, had a starter going for about about 36 hours of some Wyeast 1318 London Ale III
for Southern English Brown I'm brewing. I don't have a stir plate, but i use the "shake it when
you see it"...
Posted in thread: belgian tripel fermenting on 02-23-2011 at 05:53 PM
Did you use a starter originally? If yes, then just pitch the sugar, no worries.If no, then I'd
still say pitch the sugar, very slight almost negligible worry.
Posted in thread: Check out my recipe? First one on my own on 02-20-2011 at 11:28 PM
It looks okay to me, perhaps the OG is a little low, might want to consider upping that
bit.Also, for an American IPA, you'll want to move and/or add some late hop additions...15
minutes, 10, flameout...
Posted in thread: CP's Brew Chart 3.0 on 02-19-2011 at 10:06 PM
So I've come to my conclusion:I love this spreadsheet. For me, it beats the brewing software by
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thanks for...
Posted in thread: CP's Brew Chart 3.0 on 02-17-2011 at 02:23 AM
Hey CP,So I used your 2.0 version for a tripel I brewed and everything went great! Volumes spot
on, temps spot on, it was probably my most successful brew day to date.My only question is
regarding the...