The Hedonic Imperative holds that we design our minds and actions so that life is constantly made more pleasurable. This gets ...

We discuss (not debate!) the intricacies of host culture, feeling of place, influence of language, and threads that ...

Trace admixture means the presence of other racial groups in other “white” ethnic groups. For example, Italians carry a lot ...

DDT ended the awful scourge of malaria and probably saved the lives of many troops, but as is the case with all magic, there was a sacrificial cost, and it may have been the hormonal health of future ...

What we call the “elites” are really two things: (1) the people with bureaucratic jobs who get paid a quarter of a million ...

Tom Wolfe wrote of the status signaling of those who wanted to get ahead in a competitive society with social mobility, and ...

A cluster of ten things start to happen. We get anxious, insecure. We have anger problems. Our self-esteem is impaired.

One form of hierarchy is intelligence. IQ measures the ability to have intelligence; it is like a mechnical test of the brain. This becomes important when we encounter complexity that most people ...

Quick note: I was a guest on the Necropolis AD Show (NADS), a podcast about philosophy that yesterday covered the ...

When groups exist, they all manipulate each other, and individuals imitate other successful manipulators, so you get a herd of imitator-manipulators who are all projecting onto each other fanciful and ...