One of the best interviews I’ve seen this year came out last week. In it, Benjamin Boyce interviewed Dr. Dani Sulikowski, a faculty member and researcher at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia. Dr. Sulikowski researches how evolved social and reproductive strategies can account for modern sociopolitical ideologies, among other things. Importantly, she is a … Continue reading The End of Elite Overproduction| It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 24, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at US relations with the world under the Trump regime, specifically Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Palestine, and …| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Once again, the American police state is choosing to protect predators, not victims.| SHTF Plan
The acrylic plexiglass dome of a modern submersible is a technological marvel, but it is also extremely dangerous. A small crack, and it is gone. | Cassandra's Legacy
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) argues that we can free identity politics from its “elite capture.” But why not simply pursue a politics of class?| Damage
Let’s take a look at the highlights of Trump's first weeks. It has not all been bad, but it's not looking great.| The Hidden Dominion
We are on the verge of one of the biggest wealth transfers in world history—what some social scientists have called “The Great Wealth Transfer.” We are also living through a huge increase in wealth inequality. Yet we know surprisingly little about a key type of wealth transfer: inheritance. What do people actually do with their […]| Articles – Contexts
The popular notion in elite circles that a president must select the best-credentialed candidate deserves to be reconsidered.| The American Mind
In the debate pitting defenders of racial preferences in college admissions against proponents of meritocracy, both sides implicitly accept the premise that there must be a single national elite. What divides the two sides is how the members of this single national elite are to be selected in their late| Compact
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.| Contexts
The Instapundit founder and Substack writer talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the folly of tax-incentivized support of America’s ruling-class elites, including its philanthropic ones, and what to consider doing about it.| the Giving Review
The following video was my participation in the virtual class “Politics and Populism,” taught by one of my favorite contemporary thinkers, Yascha Mounk, at Johns Hopkins University.| the fifth wave
On 23 June 2023, the commando of the Wagner Group announced a rally for truth and justice to end the Kremlin’s bloody war in Ukraine. The ultimatum was clear. Putin’s quest to occupy Ukraine and hi…| Alter Publicus
Until quite recently we were unapologetically in love with our celebrities. They were the last elite standing.Experts, academics, social elites, politicians, civil servants, artists, authors, intel…| Mapping the Future
