The Honesty Paradox
Another round of the Epstein affair is already fading from the headlines. But the issue itself is likely to stay with us for good. For decades to come, we will…
Perceiving Decline
By now, dozens of studies suggest—if not outright demonstrate—that the sense of civilizational decline is, to a significant extent, a feature of the human mind itself. It arises from a…
Addicted to simplicity
In recent years, dopamine has become something of a buzzword—a fashionable concept invoked everywhere, usually in a negative sense, as something that is supposedly “damaging our brains.” There is no…
Return to Industry
From time to time, I am asked what I mean by restoring an industrial national state. I speak about it often, because I consider it a meaningful path out of…
Inescapable Double Standards
The central problem with morality is that its components contradict one another. This is not a matter of hypocrisy or individual moral failure. The contradiction is built into morality itself—into…