Liberalism as a concrete sociopolitical order rests upon a series of invisible hand systems: free competition in explicit economic markets, free competition in the marketplace of ideas, institutional competition among branches of government, and so on. Yet liberal faith in these systems far outruns any of the social-scientific mechanisms or evidence adduced to support...| American Affairs Journal
In his new book Joe Henrich looks at how the West became psychologically peculiar and prosperous.| Harvard Gazette
Woke capital has many nascent theorists whose accounts emphasize factors external to the corporation: the pressure of woke consumers; the demands of woke investors; a need for political and cultural legitimacy from the woke public or perhaps a narrower woke elite; the social justice demands of the woke state. While not exactly wrong, each of these falls short by failing to look deeply inside the corporation. Woke capital is the result of an interaction within the corporation between the profe...| American Affairs Journal
The tensions introduced by the prominence of a still partially medieval institution in modern society can only be resolved in two possible ways: the creation of institutions of education and knowledge production on a more modern model; or a partial neo-feudalization of the modalities, if not the class structure, of modern society, a process already underway...| American Affairs Journal
With increasing income inequality and social stratification reminiscent of the Gilded Age, talk of an “establishment” has returned to our political discourse. As in the past, the word is typically used as a pejorative describing an incumbent power structure that needs to be overturned. Yet today’s sociopolitical regime is vastly different from the establishment that…| American Affairs Journal