From repressive tolerance to repressive diversity
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="506"] A brilliant illustration of the broad terrain of both concepts. It’s telling (and sad for a left leaning centrist like me)...
The Pamela Paul Effect: Books betray us, yet still we cling to them
Many of us still venerate books. The evidence says they are not very good at what is supposed to be their primary job: putting new...
Elite Capture: how Christianity wrote the playbook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupVJkTnIqY This is one of the best podcast interviews we’ve done. We discuss Peter Heather’s marvellous book “Christendom: the triumph of a Religion”. It covers...
Why ESG is a puppet show and what to do about it
https://youtu.be/aBTFQ6wwlq8 The more I've thought about sortition or as I call it "representation by sampling" the more profound I find the ways it differs from...
I have seen the off-ramp and it works
From my Substack newsletter. Extraordinary images are being detected within the early pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. As you know, the JWST went in...
Four ways to fix the world
https://youtu.be/DxcE_PC5rgc A while back I condensed a bunch of things I have been thinking about into four ideas which I explored with Peyton Bowman in...
Engines of oligarchy: with Hugh Pope
One of my favourite podcasts with journalist, scholar and gentleman Hugh Pope. Hugh has just brought to publication a book written by his father in...