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In my forthcoming book, I look for ways to try to steelman the case for populism. One conclusion I come to is that, while populism is usually a terrible idea in developed states, it can make sense in poor nations where things are actually quite broken,...

If you’re an attractive woman, you live in a world that is completely different from that of most men. The opposite sex is desperate for your attention. Perhaps the bottom 70% of single males in status would drop what they are doing tonight and hang out with you if you just asked. They may not be the 70% you are most attracted to, but the point is that there are a lot of opti...

We all know that the ancients had a different moral system. So when I recently picked up The Iliad to read in full for the first time, I certainly wasn’t expecting democratic values, feminism, or modern conceptions of human rights.

But the one thing that did surprise me was how the motivations of the regular soldiers were implicitly understood. For those who d...

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In my forthcoming book,