How come people in Western society are rich beyond the wildest dreams of 18th-century royalty, yet appear profoundly sad? Humans need community! When I first went to university, I met people from around the country and the world. Everyone was quite alike in their socio-economic status, but also full of different histories and ideas, hopes and dreams. Also, I was surprised by the striking amount of people that were, by own declaration…

Political debate is poisoned in the West. Suddenly, radicals of all persuasions are roaming the streets and even get elected. How did this happen? If someone asked me to give a snapshot of the current politics of the West in January 2019, this is what I would reply: Europe and…

Life and politics are often about unintended consequences. Our current political debate is unintentionally detrimental to democracy. Unintentional, because most people are in fact kind-hearted and are merely seeking to make the world a better place. Yet, too often in this pursuit, we make grave errors. I think that we…

Political Analysts routinely oversimplify group behavior and reduce group interest to one single issue. Additionally, predictions of electoral outcomes underestimate the importance of a candidate’s ability to motivate people to vote at all. In a recent podcast episode of the NYT’s “The Daily”, journalists made the breathtaking discovery that Latin…

Critics of globalized trade are currently confronted with a solution to the supposed problem — yet somehow many of them do not approve. As bizarre as American political debate tends to be — it becomes especially infuriating when encountering blatant manipulation or convenient inconsistencies employed by those discussing it. Relatedly…

Recently, I stumbled upon an intriguing YouTube channel that discusses philosophy in an unusually intelligent and thorough fashion. One of the channel’s videos is a commentary on ‘capitalist realism’ and how it relates to another YouTuber called ‘Unkle Adams’. The critique or argument put forward in this video-essay is twofold…

The recent media-hype and discussion of Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be an indicator that American Politics is poised to continue its course of polarization and radicalization. After the shock of Donald Trump’s election to president wore off, some more optimistically inclined political commentators pointed out that his presidency was merely…

I have a question and I genuinely hope that someone will be able to enlighten me: Is there anyone out there that is actually creating new customer products or otherwise classically productive endeavors? Granted, my confusion on this topic is certainly greatly influenced by the pseudo-intellectual circles I tend to move around in. But as far as I can tell, the vast majority of the brightest minds…

Observing the current free speech debate, it appears that there are the offended on one side and the absolutists on the other. It is tempting to ridicule college kids who protest against speakers at their Unis and call for hate speech laws and safe spaces. They appear to be coddled…