I stop reading Twitter for a few days, and totally miss Nassim Taleb feuding with Steven Pinker and others about trends in violence rates. T...

Nominate only one, since there aren't that many to take note of. And no quirky sub-sub-sub-scene songs -- legit pop songs that reflect t...

If you've seen videos of Trump's rallies across a wide variety of locations, you've probably had your first and only glimpse int...

Back in the beginning of Trump's campaign, Nassim Taleb (judging from his Twitter presence) was conflicted about the only presidential c...

With the arrival of the Christmas season, you may be seeing charity commercials for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to An...

Let's follow up on an earlier post about how the two political parties express the will of the two different camps in the status compet...

As the laissez-faire norms of the status-striving era found political expression, it was only natural that our Presidents should hail from f...

From a comment I left at Uncouth Reflections, on the topic of progressive status signaling in the creation of the new Star Wars movie: * *...

One of the most welcome changes to come from the Trump phenomenon is the evaporation of the obsession with the personal qualities of the can...