Links for February 2025
– personal
- The Five Stages of Western Fertility by Arctotherium (2025-01-29). Here Arctotherium brings together all his research related to historical patterns of sexual norms, marriage, and fertility in the West, providing a comprehensive overview with links to his previous articles.
- Licking The Overton Window by Marcel Dumas Gautreau (2024-02-29). The Overton Window is non-sense as a model of how politics works.
- Our Big Oops by Robin Hanson (2025-02-22). A good summary of his cultural drift thesis.
- Taking Democracy off the Pedestal by Alden Whitfeld (2025-02-05).
- A varied selection of recent articles by Emil Kirkegaard:
- The benefits of marriage (2025-02-13).
- Why did NW Europeans become WEIRD? (2025-01-29).
- Elon’s meme magic (2025-01-27).
- Language and clusters (2025-01-23).
- On genocide and the worst modern ideology (2025-01-22).
- Against “phobia” (2025-01-21).
- Two articles by Michael Huemer dismantling leftist notions:
- Rich and Poor: How Things Work (2025-01-18).
- Tax Breaks for the Rich (2025-01-25).
- A series of in-depth articles by Marcel Dumas Gautreau on the weird trend of “dissident right” figures promoting drugs, and how it relates to MK-Ultra:
- Gang Weed Conservatism I: Charles Taylor and the World of Pure Imagination (2023-08-12).
- Gang Weed Conservatism II: Peter Thiel and the Narco-Capitalists (2023-08-19).
- Gang Weed Conservatism III: Rebekah Mercer and the Pharmacological Warriors (2023-08-26).
- Gang Weed Conservatism IV: Elon Musk, Grass Toucher (2023-09-03).
- Gang Weed Conservatism V: Christian Angermayer, Killing an Arab by the Cure (2023-09-09).
- Gang Weed Conservatism VI: Sidney Gottlieb and the Dream Police (2023-10-14).