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…
After the Church’s Power
At a recent public debate on whether our civilization can be saved without a return to biblical values, I outlined three institutions that conservatives typically regard as foundational: the traditional…
The Childbearing Burden
I’ve been revisiting a number of texts on declining fertility, and one fact remains striking above all: birth rates are falling everywhere. Across civilizations, across economic systems, among the religious…