Modern Folk Beliefs

Modern Folk Beliefs VI: Anti-Essentialism

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

Mar 17 • Will Solfiac

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

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

Tracing the rise and decline of climate catastrophism

Nov 23, 2025 • Will Solfiac

Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie III: “Europe was a Backwater Before Colonialism”

How a mistaken argument from the California School in the 'great divergence' debate became conventional wisdom

Aug 27, 2025 • Will Solfiac

Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie II: “Nations are Modern Creations”

How the modernist approach to nationalism of Gellner, Hobsbawm etc. became conventional wisdom.

Apr 30, 2025 • Will Solfiac

On the Folk Beliefs of the Upper Normie: “National identity is just about citizenship”

Where the illusory idea of purely civic nationalism came from, and how it became conventional wisdom.

Mar 23, 2025 • Will Solfiac

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