About The Site

Reductio Ad Absurdum is a continually updated review of politics, books, and culture. Unlike opinion blogs, the focus here is not writing critical analysis of the day's news, but rather highlighting noteworthy articles on politics, books, and culture from a wide variety of sources (although we do now feature an opinion blog). The editorial selection leans libertarian and conservative, although thoughtful people should find items of interest regardless of political inclination. A recent comment on the editorial can be found in this weblog entry.

Submissions and comments are encouraged. Click here to send an email.

Reductio Ad Absurdum is edited by Kevin Whited, and is an outgrowth of his personal website.

For those who would like to link to Reductio Ad Absurdum, please feel free to use the following button, and thanks!

The following is a log of changes/news for the site

(02-16-2003) Version Two of the website is launched, powered by Nucleus. This was a complex redesign, and there are likely to be lingering issues. PLEASE report any bugs you find or problems you have! Thanks.

(04-24-2002) Reductio Ad Absurdum has been named the Site of the Day at Vianet/EFNI Connect's North Bay Portal. A big Thank You to our Canadian friends!

(04-21-2002) A low-bandwidth, reduced version of the front page is now available. The page is suitable for PDAs and mobile devices. It may also be accessed as a custom Avant Go channel.

(04-20-2002) The individual Monthly Archive pages have been modified so that they are now organized by category, and then by chronology, thanks to improvements made in Movable Type Version 2.0. Previously they were organized by chronology only.

(04-16-2002) Reductio Ad Absurdum has been named the Conservative Site of the Day by Enter Stage Right. Thank you!

(03-07-2002) Reductio Ad Absurdum has been named the Spotlight Site today at Movable Type. Benjamin and Mena Trott's versatile Movable Type software is used to manage the content on this site, and is highly recommended. Thank you!

(02-20-2002) The Little Green Footballs weblog, always a great source of social and political commentary (especially on Arab and Israeli affairs) has named Reductio Ad Absurdum the "Blogga The Week." Thank you!

Additionally, several people have asked for a button to link to Reductio Ad Absurdum. My graphical abilities are virtually nonexistent, but feel free to use this very simple button (and thanks!):

(02-01-2002) In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that references to books in print on this site will now be hyperlinked to their corresponding Amazon.com page, with our referral code. That means a small percentage of any book purchased as a result of said referral is credited to the referrer.

(01-19-2002) The portal page is now functional.

(01-13-2002) The new weblog is now up and running, with all major features functional, save for the Portal (the link is dead, so clicking on it has no effect). I'll be revising the portal at my personal site soon for this site, along with some minor tweaks.