Will Solfiac's Newsletter

Modern Folk Beliefs VII: “Immigration built Britain”

The rise of the ill-fitting ‘nation of immigrants’ template for national identity

Jun 5 • Will Solfiac

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May 2026

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 • Will Solfiac

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April 2026

Immigration and the dangers of sticking to outdated ideologies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 • Will Solfiac

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March 2026

Modern Folk Beliefs VI: Anti-Essentialism

The history and consequences of the denial of human nature and of cultural difference

Mar 17 • Will Solfiac

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February 2026

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 • Will Solfiac

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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 • Will Solfiac

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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 • Will Solfiac

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January 2026

Notes on China’s alternative modernity

Mostly impressive, sometimes eerie

Jan 21 • Will Solfiac

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December 2025

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 • Will Solfiac

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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 • Will Solfiac

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November 2025

Modern Folk Beliefs IV: “Climate change will lead to human extinction”

Tracing the rise and decline of climate catastrophism

Nov 23, 2025 • Will Solfiac

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Why are black people so overrepresented in advertising?

Sarah Pochin, diversity as blackness, and the taboo around honest discussion of asymmetrical multiculturalism

Nov 4, 2025 • Will Solfiac

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