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Modern Folk Beliefs VIII: “Immigration is justified payback for colonialism”
Taking Jameela Jamil seriously
Sep 3
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On the myth of the British cutting off Indian weavers’ thumbs
A brief explanation
Aug 23
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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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