89    I Believe that "La Mer" represents the first great work of Modern music.

88    I Believe that until America stops being afraid of the crank head porn monkeys and dead end Darwin deniers that make up the reactionary activist class, we will make no progress.

87    I Believe that no sane Democratic party should nominate moderate Republicans for Senate seats in Pennsylvania.

86    I Believe in the Art Work of the Future.

85    I Believe that the social world of art's sole purpose is to connect artists with their audiences.

84    I Believe that Marxism and Libertarianism represent different forms of the same intellectual mistake.

83    I Believe that one must do unto others before they do unto you.

82    I Believe that the nation belongs to the living generation.

81    I Believe that Hip-Hop is the first music of digitality, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

80    I Believe that the ur-Subject of the Romantic was Nature, the ur-subject of the Victorian was culture, the ur-subject of modernity was urbanity, the ur-subject of post-modernity was media, and the ur-subject of digitality is emergence.

79    I Believe that, before a decade is out, that the Standard Model will be seen to be fatally flawed.

78    I Believe that the Democratic Party will not win elections until Democrats go after Republicans with the same joy they go after fellow Democrats. And I Believe that the Democratic Party will not become the party of government until it can clean up its own corrupt campaign culture.

77    I Believe in the coming organic age, to replace the old geometrical one in inevitable succession.

76    I Believe that any Democratic Party that is not liberal and progressive is not worth voting for.

75    I Believe that there is a terrible price to be paid for Bush v Gore, and that it will be paid ininstallments for at least a generation.

74    I Believe that there is, for all practical purposes, no such thing as fiat money.

73    I Believe that China will be a super power, later than people think, but sooner than Americans are ready for.

72    I Believe that NATO, the UN, the IMF and other international institutions are essential to solving the current economic imbalances.

71    I Believe that Phony Blair's government will be brought down as soon as the phony prosperity crumbles beneath the weight of his phony war.

70    I Believe that I will never be electable for any office in the United States of America.

69    I Believe that Iraq, jobs and 911 show a persistent and consistent pattern of deception on the part of an administration more Nixonian than Nixon's.

68    I Believe in mesoëconomics as I Believe in the economics of Smith, Keynes and Marshall.

67    I Believe that the revolution is not being televised.

66    I Believe that Museums of Contemporary Art are none of the above, but instead repositories of an age when people were subjected to media the way moderns were subjected to the city.

65    I Believe that George Will knows as much about Monet as Tom Delay knows about honesty.

64    I Believe that Thomas Quastoff is the finest singer I will ever hear.

63    I Believe that blogging is the rock and roll of this decade: the place of energy and expression.

62    I Believe that Americans want liberal government.

61    I Believe that they are not quite yet willing to pay for it.

60    I Believe that Pedro Martinez will win 300 games.

59    I Believe that stupid people die stupid deaths.

58    I Believe George Washington and Grover Cleveland are the most under-rated Presidents.

57    I Believe that Lessig, Jenkins, Weinberger, Searls, Torvalds, Stallman, Stoller, Kernigan and Ritchie will be understood in the future having ideas of importance in political philosophy.

56    I Believe that war is the great purpose of the state.

55    I Believe that the way must be trod firmly.

54    I Believe that converting the energy system is the over-riding purpose of our generation and that lack of investment supply the source of our current economic difficulties.

53    I Believe in my lifetime that spheres will overtake pyramids as the dominant form of social organization.

52    I Believe that the Twins and the Braves played the greatest world series ever.

51    I Believe that Wesley Kanne Clark is the finest American of his generation, and only hope there is one as fine in my generation.

50    I Believe that theatre is life, cinema is art and television is furniture.

49    I Believe that Joe Trippi should have been hired by the Democratic Party, yesterday, if not the day before.

48    I Believe that the market for confirmation vastly excedes the market for information.

47    I Believe that the Republican Party leadership pimps liberty for some temporary prosperity.

46    I Believe that politics is the art of combining all other arts.

45    I Believe that the surplus society must replace the culture of debt.

44    I Believe that manufacturing of atomic weapons is the most environmentally destructive activity mankind engages in.

43    I Believe that that which is not beautiful, is not functional.

42    I believe tha criticism of art must be grounded in perception, not reception.

41    I believe that that which cannot go on, won't.

40    I Believe that "Thriller" is the most over-rated work of anything, ever.

39    I Believe Iraq to be the greatest strategic blunder of the post Cold War Era.

38    I Believe that the way of the warrior is death, and no ardent wishes will ever extinguish its necessity.

37    I Believe that xaos is to the present what Newton's Calculus was to the Enlightenment.

36    I Believe that the Cold war is over, and it is time to bury its dead.

35    I Believe in open government, openly arrived at.

34    I Believe that Lincoln and FDR were the greatest Presidents, and that Marshall and Warren the greatest Chief Justices, and that for intercession I pray to Rockefeller and Johnson in the realm of practical politics.

33    I Believe in the Fourth Republic Thesis.

32    I Believe that Markos and Simon should serve terms as Chair of the DNC.

31    I Believe that John Edwards should be the next President of the United States.

30    I Believe, as Machiavelli did, that people often deceive themselves in generalities, but seldom in specifics.

29    I Believe that people should read, not thump, the great works of Western Civilization.

28    I Believe that free trade is both a practical and ethical necessity, and that a world that the inability to practice it is a sure sign of economic deprivation.

27    I Believe in balancing budgets as the result, and not the means, of a prosperous society.

26    I Believe the price of civility is honesty, and without it there is only servility.

25    I Believe that Ian Welsh should be a member of the Canadian Parliament and that Peter Daou and Jerome Armstrong should be members of the House of Representatives.

24    I Believe that the Republcian Party is the reactionary Party, and that the Democratic Party must cease to be the conservative party.

23    I Believe that while Post-Modernism is dead, it is not over and while Modernism is over, it is not dead.

22    I Believe my time will come.

21    I Believe that String Theory represents the intellectual lever which will unlock the next wave of great discoveries in the physics.

20    I Believe in the exploration of space.

19    I Believe that American can do better, must do better and shall do better.

18    I Believe that the next great work of art is being made this moment, and that there shall be another, even greater, after that.

17    I Believe that Shakespeare is the Greatest Writer known to me, and that Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven are the Greatest Composers known to anyone.

16    I Believe that the Four Square Theorum is the gem of mathematics.

15    I Believe that where there is crime, there is no justice.

14    I Believe in the results of reason, ordered by rationality and made tangible by aesthetics are the foundations of society.

13    I Believe that the unexamined life is not worth living.

12    I Believe that the state, the society and the market, working in balance, are the greatest means for improving human welfare yet discovered.

11    I Believe that that to be a liberal is to be suspicious of all concentrations of power.

10    I Believe that society has not yet erased the sins of bigotry from our laws and institutions.

9    I Believe in love at first sight, lust at first sight, and the importance of not confusing the two.

8    I Believe that there is no such thing, as a free lunch.

7    I Believe in the sacred duty of all Americans to protect and defend the Constitution, most particularly when it is not to our immediate economic advantage.

6    I Believe George W.Bush to be a war criminal, who in a just world would be arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned.

5    I Believe in the equality of all human beings, where ever born, in whatever circumstance, in not merely their legal rights, but their economic and social rights.

4    I Believe that no explanation for the diversity of life superior to Natural Selection and Tectonicity of Genetics will ever be found.

3    I Believe in One God, maker of Heavan and Earth.

2    I Believe that none the less, nothing in that creed occurred in a manner inconsistent with the orderly and understandable universe and that those who need miracles beyond existence and consciousness are testing the patience of a very patient God.

1    I believe that all that can truly be called knowledge is open source.