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Modern Folk Beliefs VII: “Immigration built Britain”
The rise of the ill-fitting ‘nation of immigrants’ template for national identity
Jun 5
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How to stop anti-racism harming our institutions and our country
An anti-racism inquiry, reforming the Equality Act, transforming the incentive structures within public bodies, and changing minds.
May 13
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Immigration and the dangers of sticking to outdated ideologies
As demonstrated by the fall of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Moriori, among others
Apr 10
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Modern Folk Beliefs VI: Anti-Essentialism
The history and consequences of the denial of human nature and of cultural difference
Mar 17
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Grooming gangs and the failure of social science
How a 1980s study into Oxford's Pakistani community highlights the blindness of our institutions
Feb 24
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AI and the true nature of technological progress
LLMs are cotton spinning, not space travel, and the 20th-century idea of progress was an anomaly.
Feb 15
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Modern folk beliefs V: “Your ancestors had kids in their teens”
How marriage and family structure really differed across the world in history
Feb 11
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Notes on China’s alternative modernity
Mostly impressive, sometimes eerie
Jan 21
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