Siloing ‘call out’ or ‘cancel’ culture. Writer and commentator Helen Dale has nicely labelled siloing the phenomena of different media outlets not only purveying very different opinions, but also paying attention to very different things. For instance, even life-long left-wingers such as Glenn Greenwald, Freddie DeBoer or Andrew Doyle can…

Over on Helen Dale’s substack, the first instalment of a series of essays I have written on the theme of ‘Worshipping the Future’ has been published. As I explain briefly on my own substack, one is unlikely to reason folk out of beliefs they were not reasoned into. That still provides lots of reasons to examine ideas and their consequences. I hope folk enjoy the essay series and find the offerings therein usefully informative.

The destructive non-electoral politics of institutional capture. Source: Economic Policy Institute. Have done two new posts on Substack. On Helen Dale’s Substack, I have posted on how the rate of social change does not de-stabilise conventional centre-right politics, it is change (or the threat of change) that by-passes electoral politics…

Exploring the snowballing weirdness of our time. — Source: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash. I will be publishing a series of essays on Helen Dale’s Substack. The series is entitled Worshipping the Future. I briefly discuss how the series came to be on my Substack. An essay introducing the series, Human nature, liberalism, and the politics of transformation, has been published on Helen Dale’s Substack. Enjoy!

Against the Gender Theory Transcult. I have started a Substack. I have also been publishing some essays on Helen Dale’s Substack. This is a link to a post on my Substack putting a personal context on the first essay I published on Helen’s Substack. https://lorenzofromoz.substack.com/p/people-were-a-weird-mob

It is always tempting to frame those who disagree with us in our terms, rather than theirs. Religions and political ideologies provide framings through which we view the world. When we notice that others seriously and persistently disagree with us, it is very tempting to see them as being driven…

Marx taught intellectuals to systematically mis-understand commerce. Recently, I did something I probably should have done years ago. I systematically went through Karl Marx’s Value, Price and Profit. It is based on a lecture Marx gave in 1865, as he was writing the first volume of Capital. …

When what’s on your shirt is more salient than successfully landing a probe on a comet, the processes that built modern freedoms and prosperity are in reverse. Most species have dominance (top-down status) as their dominant status strategy. Homo sapiens are distinctive in developing two other status strategies as social…

Opinions that mark one off as one of the smart-and-the-good can have a disastrous effect on policy and organisations. In her review of Andrew Doyle’s recently published book arguing the case for free speech, novelist, lawyer and commentator Helen Dale makes the following observation: Relatedly, one of the most depressing…