Where Do You Actually Stand?
Most political quizzes ask two questions and call the answer a map. Three come apart here, and the third is the one that does the work: how the economy should be arranged, how much of the settled order is up for renegotiation, and whether anybody may be compelled at all. That last one cuts across the other two, which is why the person who wants collective ownership without a state and the person who wants free markets without one stop being the same dot.
Thirty-eight statements, about seven minutes, and a point inside a cube. Answer for what you actually think, not for what the side you usually agree with is supposed to think.
Who Gets to Build?
Arguments about housing collapse into one line — build more, or don't — and that line hides the argument that actually divides people. What should a place be like is one question. Who should be deciding and doing the building is a completely different one, and two people can agree exactly about the first and be on opposite sides of the second.
Twenty-four statements, about four minutes, and a point on a map. Answer for where you would want to live and how you would want it built, wherever you happen to live now.
What Is Prison Actually For?
Ask what a sentence is for and you get two answers that sound compatible and are not. One looks backward at what was done. The other looks forward at what happens next.
Almost every argument about punishment is really this disagreement, held by people who have never said out loud which one they are answering. Ten statements, about two minutes, and one number.
