Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent The result of these two trendlines—the dominance of luxury-belief-driven status competition in a period of extended economic stagnation—was a brew of identity politics, political tribalism, and cultural warfare that would have been bad enough on its own. Andrew Potter 19 Aug 2021 · 9 min read
The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below). David C. Geary 20 Oct 2020 · 12 min read
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology? Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us. Alex Mackiel 8 Apr 2019 · 19 min read
What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology? Without an understanding of the selection pressures that shaped our minds, much of human existence is frustratingly bewildering. Tristan Flock 17 Oct 2018 · 7 min read