Final accounting for Based Deleuze: Financials, time allocation, lessons learned.

To avoid flame wars at Christmas parties, ask this sequence of questions before sharing edgy opinions.

That graph is from the new book by political scientists Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart (2019), Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism. Just finishing the book now. I'd call it a rigorous validation of the conventional wisdom of the moment.  Certainly required reading for anyone with weirder theories about the culture wars. This will […]

In my current book project, one of my goals is to provide the fullest possible empirical accounting of the strange new persona sometimes derisively called the "social justice warrior." Although the main contours of my argument are pretty well developed, there are various sub-hypotheses that I've had for a while — but no data to […]

A feature of today's wars is that almost nobody starts them, new research suggests.

Can the less educated be more sophisticated than the educated, accidentally?