*Updated June 5, 1998*
Writing and editing the Spectacle is a monumental task, so I don't get to update this links page nearly as often as I would like. If you happen to discover a dead or erroneous link, please email me at jw@bway.net.
New sites are added at the bottom of the relevant section, so if you have visited before, just scroll to the bottom of the section that interests you to check for anything new.
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My favorite search engine is WebCrawler.
The Spectacle is also referenced in Yahoo and Galaxy.
You can search across all Usenet postings by topic at Dejanews.
Lloyd Allison's Associative Memory is a searchable bibliography of 4,000 articles on computing, game theory, and other topics.
Starting Point is a compilation of Web sites.
The following are people who have created links from their personal home pages to the Spectacle, so I'm gratefully returning the favor. Please email me if you have a link to the Spectacle so I can add your name here.
Jon Newton's site, On the Road in Cyberspace, is an entertaining tour of the Internet, with lots of links.
Ohio Right to Life was recommended by a reader.
Deathnet deals with suicide and euthanasia and has apparently attracted a lot of controversy in Canada, where it is based.
A reader asked us to add The Ultimate Prolife pages.
Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia has a site.
The Primate Info Net is operated by the University of Wisconsin.
The Gorilla Foundation is the organization which shelters Koko, the gorilla who communicates in American Sign language.
The MIT chapter of Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals maintains a Web site, while Envirolink hosts People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The ACLU, the most venerable of civil liberties organizations, has a shiny new Web site.
Here is Peter McWilliams' book on victimless crimes, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do.
Justice on Campus Project deals with campus speech codes.
Freematt's Alerts archives Matthew Gaylor's daily mailings on freedom and civil liberties.
Slave narratives, including sound recordings and photographs of ex-slaves interviewed by the WPA in the 1930's.
The two pages I checked almost every day during the Internet indecency crisis are Center for Democracy and Technology and Voters' Telecommunications Watch. Check out VTW especially for its Parental Control FAQ.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, carries bulletins on legal and political events affecting cyberspace, such as the Communications Decency Act and the Amateur Action BBS case.
A similar organization is Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, who have an equally slow-moving site with some good resources online.
Another good source, particularly for privacy information, is EPIC.
Jake Baker Information Page contains coverage of the Baker controversy at the University of Michigan. Swan maintains a link to my article about Catherine MacKinnon in the November issue of the Spectacle.
Computer Underground Digest covers legal and policy issues pertaining to the Net.
Cyber-technology and Culture is a staggering collection of links to documents on the history, sociology, law, ethics, politics, etc. of cyberspace.
John December'sComputer Mediated Communications magazine provides thoughtful, philosophical coverage of Internet issues.
How about a semiotic analysis of cyberspace?
Alan Lewine maintains an excellent compilation of Communications Decency Act resources.
Vannevar Bush's classic 1945 essay, As We May Think, predicted today's computer technology.
Cyber-rights and Cyber-liberties is a British compilation of international resources.
Peacefire is a youth organization concerned with Internet freedom of expression.
Here are details on the first Net censorship trial in Queensland, Australia.
Information on Declan McCullagh's excellent Fight Censorship mailing list is at this Web site.
Peter Meyer maintains a CDA archive.
Electric Minds is a Webzine, an electronic community, and generally a great place to hang out.
ReWired is Mark Stahlman's strange but engaging Webzine.
Seth Finkelstein maintains this great site at MIT on ratings systems and blocking software.
Association of Online Professionals is a trade group for ISP's and others.
The Free Mumia Abu Jamal page focuses on the Philadelphia activist who is on Death Row after an extremely questionable trial for the murder of a policeman (his gun was never tested to determine if it had been fired, the bullet was originally described as being a different caliber than the gun, the police alleged an emergency room confession while a cop whose report stated that Jamal had made no statement in the emergency room left the city during the trial and did not testify).
EnviroWeb is a goldmine of environmental information and a gateway to numerous other sites. Its motto: "Communicate globally, act locally."
TheSierra Club is online.
Greenpeace, like the organization itself, is the right mix of substance and showmanship. Files and press releases on environmental issues including whaling, the climate, Alaskan oil spill, etc., with dramatic graphics of Greenpeace in action.
Where You Live, an environmental organization, maintains online databases allowing you to look up information on environment-related activities in your Congressional district, as well as campaign contributions to your representatives.
The Union of Concerned Scientists site contains a Warning to Humanity about what we are doing to our world.
Reader Steven Bissell, a professor, shared a wealth of info on environmental sites:
"A site with readings in Environmental Ethics.
"The Center for Applied Ethics site for links to Environmental Ethics..
"The University of Northern Texas Center for Environmental Philosophy. It is very good and a link to numerous other sites and programs. The Journal, Environmental Ethics is here and a searchable Bibliography.
"The International Society for Environmental Ethics also has the searchable bibliography.
"The Harvard University site for Environmental Ethics.
"A *huge* collection of links to Environmental Ethics.
A St.Thomas University, Ireland, site. Very interesting for theologists as well.
"A maillist from the UK, but with members worldwide, discussing environmental ethics."
Evolutionary values contains excerpts from two manuscripts the author has written about evolution and ethics.
Evolution and Ethics gathers Bruno Caudana's scholarly writings on this topic, and numerous other links and resources.
Emily and Augie's Evolution Page was compiled by two college students.
Here is a Creationist Web page marshalling the usual arguments against evolution. Another such page is The Revolution Against Evolution.
Clifford Sharp has written The Origin and Evolution of Human Values.
The National Organization for Women has files on issues of concern to feminists, including abortion, sexual harassment, etc.
There is a Sexual Assault Information Page.
Feminists for Free Expression believe that pornography is healthy for women, not harmful. In the November 1995 issue of the Spectacle, I wrote about FFE founder Wendy McElroy.
Two other feminist organizations opposed to censorship are Feminists Against Censorship and Northwest Feminist Anti-Censorship TaskForce.
Hats off to the creator of The Flag Burning Page for his combination of a sense of humor, dedication to the First Amendment, and scholarly determination. The definitive site on this highly symbolic issue.
The First Amendment Cyber-Tribune is an excellent compilation of free speech news, developments, book reviews, op ed pieces and other resources.
The Freedom Forum is a good source of general First Amendment coverage and analysis.
The Fileroom Censorship Archive presents case studies of censorship here and abroad.
Freedom of Expression: Censor Bait contains links to many sites that were threatened by the Communications Decency Act.
Censorship of Pornography in Cyberspace is a great overview, with links to many other resources.
This is a book on the First Amendment.
Here is a collection of Freedom of Expression links.
Bibliobytes book store maintains this page on book banning attempts in the U.S.
This is journalism professor Tim Gleason's site.
Project Censored keeps track of news stories which don't get covered in the U.S.
Rainbow Alley describes itself as a "premiere multimedia, interactive website for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community"-- and also maintains a link to The Ethical Spectacle.
The NRA is online with scads of legislative and political information, including status of gun laws they are tracking in all 50 states. (How about a return favor, gentlemen? A link back to the Spectacle?)
The Second Amendment Foundation actually does include a link to the Spectacle--but only to this Links page. If you got here from SAF, please note that I believe in some gun control-- please browse my index pages for quick access to everything I've written on this topic.
The Coalition for Gun Control is an Australia and New Zealand organization with resources concentrating on those two countries.
The Case for Gun Control is a well-reasoned collection of essays.
Second Thoughts About Gun Control" describes itself as a "site for the armed liberal."
Every time I write anything about gun control, Karl and other staff members at The Public Awareness Center write me scores of strenuous email messages debating me on every conceivable point.
A reader informed me of this Hiroshima site.
The Atom Bomb Decision groups documents and links pertaining to the US decision to use the bomb against Japan.
The city of Hiroshima maintains a Web page about the bombing.
Also hosted in Japan is a poignant A-Bomb Museum.
The Seattle Times presents a collection of articles about the Trinity tests and the Hiroshima bombing.
Doug Long maintains an excellent site collecting his essays on Hiroshima and other resources.
This site is a collection of documents pertaining to the life of Leo Szilard, atomic scientist who headed a last-ditch effort to persuade President Truman not to use the bomb.
The Hiroshima Archive collects documents and resources on the bombing.
Ken McVay, who nobly devotes his time to fighting Holocaust denial on the Net, has a clearinghouse for all Holocaust information, The Nizkor Project.
A really detailed and beautiful site is Michael Declan Dunn's Cybrary of the Holocaust.
Reader Ari Frankel notified me about a Primo Levi interview on his Web pages.
Also check out L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project.
Originating from an Australian university, there is an essay analyzing the Nazi use of language.
Steven Fransblow of Montreal wrote to let me know about the March of the Living page.
. There is now an official Anne Frank web site. However, I'm potentially uncomfortable with the Anne Frank museum, which runs it. Several years ago, a really great unofficial Anne Frank site was driven off the Web by copyright threats, and I think--but do not know--that these are the folks who did it. If so, they may be running this a bit too much as a business.
The Deportation Museum is based in Belgium and covers the destruction of that country's Jewish population.
Sheldon Epstein was discharged from Northwestern University for teaching the Holocaust to his engineering class.
David's Holocaust Awareness Project was compiled by an 11 year old boy.
Brave New Web hosts IDEA, a Webzine dedicated to studying genocide, autocracy and abuse of power. A collection of contemporary photographs of Auschwitz is available here as well.
I offered to exchange links with Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. For as long as he maintains a link to An Auschwitz Alphabet, I will maintain this link to his pages. I hold with John Milton that we should "Read any books whatever come to thy hands, for thou art sufficient to judge aright, and to examine each matter... Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." I think more people will be persuaded of the Holocaust's truth by this link exchange than otherwise.
Mark Mangan recommends this site.
This bookstore claims to have rare and out-of-print Holocaust material.
Here is the Amnesty International site.
The Coalition for International Justice supports the War Crimes tribunal in Rwanda.
This site contains copies of all of the international human rights instruments, such as the Geneva conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Derechos Human Rights promotes international respect for human rights.
Oxfam is the U.S. office of the worldwide hunger organization.
The California Emergency Foodlink was recommended to me by a reader who helped develop the site.
This site is dedicated to the indigenous people of Australia.
Here is the Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence is available too.
The gem of all web sites is Thomas , the Library of Congress site which gives full text of all pending legislation and allows keyword searches. You can also send email to all Congresspeople (but don't expect them to answer!)
Congress also has its own site with bill information, schedules, links to Congressional gopher sites, and information on contacting Congresspeople.
The White House site is not very substantive (meowing picture of Socks the cat) but contains links to some policy information.
Fedworld is a clearinghouse for other types of federal regulations, documentation and information.
The Department of Justice is online with information including U.S. v. Microsoft documents.
Cornell Law School provides an invaluable gateway to legal information, including full text of recent Supreme Court decisons, also searchable by keyword.
Legal Sources pulls together legal links, with a special focus on Internet freedom of speech and communications law.
LawGuru provides links to many other legal resources.
The Creative Incentive Coalition site contains information on copyright issues.
The Federalist Papers are here.
The Fully Informed Jury Association believes that juries should be able to nullify laws they don't agree with.
Here is a Legal Ethics site.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), covers the press.
There is an excellent Media and Communications Studies site based at the University of Wales. Here you can find anything from a history of the telephone to an introduction to semiotics, as well as links to other useful pages.
The FCC is not averse to regulating the Internet if properly invited by the Congress.
Memetics, proposed by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976, is based on the proposition that ideas--memes--singly and in related groups, propagate themselves across brains the way genes do across bodies.
The Memetic Lexicon is a glossary of memetic terms.
Another page devoted to this topic is Meme Central.
Viruses of the Mind is a Dawkins essay about memetics.
The Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
Metaphor: From Plato to the Postmodernists
The Ultimate Philosophy page contains links to a lot of other resources.
The Centre for Applied Ethics home page leads to a few papers.
Articles on ethics can also be found at IPPE Preprints.
For bioethics resources, check out this site.
Legal and Ethical Internet Resources is another page of links to other pages.
Principia Cybernetica is a fascinating attempt to codify all human philosophical knowledge, from a cybernetics standpoint. An immense work in progress, I have consulted it on topics as diverse as the Prisoner's Dilemma and memes.
Professor Larry Hinman wrote to say that Ethics Updates " deals both with ethical theory and with a number of issues in applied ethics, including abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, death penalty, environmental ethics."
Contributor Leon Felkins maintains a Web site of his philosophical essays on topics such as the "Social Dilemma".
This site concentrates on the ethics of health care.
The Johns Hopkins Philosophy pages are a gateway to a lot of other material but haven't been updated recently.
Social Ethics is the syllabus of a course. It contains links to numerous other resources including The Ethical Spectacle.
This page offers the code of a Java implementation of the Prisoner's Dilemma--and also contains a link to the Spectacle issue on that subject.
Here is another good page of philosophy links.
Fred Fariss maintains the Knowing and Being Web Page and the Selfness Home Page.
Society for the Promotion of Unconditional Commitment in Relationships (SPUR) describes itself as "a voluntary organisation which exists to increase public understanding and awareness of the nature and benefits of Unconditional Commitment in Relationships."
For followers of linguist, philosopher and political commentator Noam Chomsky, there is an archive of his writings.
The World's Shortest Political Quiz, asks you a series of questions and then tells you where you fall on the political spectrum. When I tried it, it told me I am somewhat left of center and much closer to authoritarian than libertarian.
Turnleft, the former Liberal Information page, now lives here.
For a right-wing perspective, the Right Side of the Net has files on the Contract with America and articles on topics like the reasons why the U.N. Treaty on Children will subvert America.
Some left-wing coverage of Mr. Gingrich may be found at What's Newt? and Newtwatch. *NOTE* The What's Newt link is a corrected URL, so if you tried it before and it didn't work, please try again. The Webmaster at Newtwatch de-linked The Spectacle for reasons he didn't make clear but which I understood to relate to his dislike of some of my opinions. He said he would understand if I deleted Newtwatch from my Links page. I won't, because I believe in linking to sites whether I agree with everything said there or not.
Mother Jones magazine provides progressive coverage of political developments.
Skeptic Magazine is hard to classify, but certainly belongs here.
IGC.APC.ORG provides links to the home pages of numerous progressive organizations.
Z Net is an online leftist newsletter with links to other relevant materials.
The Electronic Democracy Forum also contains a lot of links to other useful information.
The Patriot site is a miasma of separatist, paranoid, black-helicopter style information.
The Democratic National Committee is online.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Home Page quotes some words that Jesse Helms and others said in the '60's that they probably wish would not be remembered in the '90's.
The Activist Organization is a gateway to scads of political activism information.
The AZConnect Community Pages describes itself as targeting constituents of the "digital democracy band".
Check out reader Jamal Hannah's Libertarian Socialist web site.
There is a Perot Periodical web page.
Reader Brett Kottman wrote to advise of his Ronald Reagan page.
The Unabomber's Manifesto is online.
The Propaganda Analysis Home Page is an antidote to the hype and spin doctoring we must endure everyday.
George is young Kennedy's political mag.
Politics USA bills itself as the "most comprehensive political website in existence".
The National Political Index describes itself as "a web site which intends to provide a one stop shop for substantive political information for voters, political activists, political consultants, lobbyists, politicians, academicians, and media editors with a wide range of products, information, services, simulations, games, and polling in an interactive communications environment."
A reader let us know about Electionline.
The Republican National Committee is online.
This is a collection of links to Republican and election-related sites.
Check out the Brookings Institutes' discussion on
campaign
finance reform.
The Newspeak and
Doublethink page contains some thought-provoking essays.
The Evil
Empire Books Page lists leftist and radical books recommended
by the band Rage Against the Machine.
Third Party
Central advances the idea of healthy third party politics
in America.
Peter Meyer's unusual pages
contain commentaries on everything from censorship to
psychedelic drugs.
Project Vote Smart
describes itself as "the major program of The Center for National Independence in Politics, a
national non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization focused on providing citizens/voters with information
about the political system, issues, candidates and elected officials."
Its founding board is headed by ex-Presidents Carter and
Ford. The site contains a
page of links to campaign finance resources, including
Abolish
All Campaign Finance, an essay from the premiere issue
of The Ethical Spectacle in January 1995.
One's Right to Personal Freedom is Inherently
Granted by the Merits of One's Soul is a libertarian
essay.
Intellectual
Capital is a conservative Webzine edited by
former governor Pete Dupont.
Here is an interesting attempt to determine
what Thomas
Jefferson would have thought on various contemporary
topics, based on his writings.
The Dark
Cartel BBS is one of the last holdouts of unregenerate
Marxists online.
Where You Live, an
environmental organization, allows you to look up
campaign contribution data online; a great way
to find out who owns your Congressperson.
Here is an offbeat essay recommending
the scientific selection of political candidates.
Boston
Review is a monthly publication.
The Founding
Fathers describes itself as having "ALL the ANSWERS TO ALL
the TOUGH QUESTIONS on politics, religion, conservatives,
liberals, creation, abortion, racism, and anything else
that's worth addressing."
Here is the
Political Theory site, with links to works by many
ancient and modern theorists.
Interactivism tracks environmental,
reproductive, homeless and civil liberties issues.
Interfaith texts contains materials on
the major religions.
The
Anathema site contains
regular sarcastic essays that (so far) seem to relate to religious
ethics and politics.
Brother Mark's Christian
Material contains many links to other religious sources.
The Alt.Atheism Web
represents the unbeliever's point of view, as does
The
Secular Web . The
Internet Resources for Atheists page is also available.
The
Religious Tolerance pages, hailing from Ontario, Canada,
describe the salient features of the world's major religions.
You can search full text of the Bible at
University of Virginia Bible Search.
A reader wrote to tell me about the United
Church of Christ site.
Richard L. Goerwitz III called our attention to
another site where you can search full text of the Bible.
Onesalt is a series of essays
applying Christian doctrine to contemporary issues, from
a humanitarian perspective.
The
Jefferson Bible deals with the life and morals of
Jesus of Nazareth from a Jeffersonian perspective.
Reader Mike Van Pelt describes ACLJ as a
civil liberties site which treats people of faith as citizens too.
Bad Science
is an excellent essay on the abuse of forensics in legal proceedings.
The Ethics
in Science page is maintained at Virginia Tech.
William
Calvin is a fascinating character, a sort of modern
Renaissance man. Full text of his books on evolution,
the brain and human intelligence is archived here, along
with essays, speeches and even novels.
Steve Bissell writes about
A site on Engineering Ethics and
The Center for Ethics in Engineering and Science.
A
history of technology site is hosted at Cornell.
TheCenter Against Violence Everywhere is a program run by
East Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
An Analysis
of Juvenile Homicides is a scholarly paper published last
summer by the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives.
Voices vs. Violence is the National Mental Health Association's
campaign to eliminate violence.
Working
Against Violence Page coordinates many links to other anti-violence
resources.
Religion
Science and Engineering
Technology
Violence
Please write to me at jw@bway.net to recommend
sites for inclusion here.