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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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The rebirth of Anglo-America?
The true level of British ancestry in the US census compared with genetic studies. How the ‘nation of immigrants’ came to be, and the status of Anglo…
Dec 21, 2025
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November roundup and links: catastrophising about British emigration; the fertility crisis; and women with PhDs
Some articles, books, podcasts, and Twitter 'current thing' discourse
Dec 1, 2025
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Modern Folk Beliefs IV: “Climate change will lead to human extinction”
Tracing the rise and decline of climate catastrophism
Nov 23, 2025
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