An increasingly familiar analysis begins with a vague tale involving rising dissatisfaction with elites, spiralling ineq

How Metasophism takes postmodernism seriously

Chapter Seven posted

Chapter Six posted

When one glances back at the disaster for Europe that was the twentieth century, who are the prime candidates for blame?

One of the iconic events during the fall of Hellenic-Classical civilisation was the burning of the library of Alexandria

The rise of China has led many to question the effectiveness of Western democratic institutions. This was particularly t

In the first chapter, we learned that the societal rot begins with a decline in creativity among the elites. But why doe

Travelling through Europe, one is often struck by the spires, fine houses, and grand public buildings that create the sk

The University may seem to be a curious place to start when designing a new socio-political system. I do so for three re

At a time of declining trust in institutions, the media is among the most severely affected. Who still trusts the media

As the West stumbles its way into the 21st century, it does so with a burden of debt on it’s back which, should it not b

In 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty released the English version of his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A

In the movie Children of Men, it is the year 2027 and no child has been born for 18 years. Huddled masses search for a n

Some doubt the potential of Metasophism. They consider its ambition impractical, its design utopian, and its appeal, lim

If we could say that the West has a soul, what would it be? For Spengler, it was a longing for infinity, which manifeste

Redefining happiness

A digital euro and full-reserve banking

MacIntyre's ethics: justification and metaphysics

Should asset prices be included in inflation?

How many people think life is meaningless?

Society as a symbolic action system

A lesson for would-be reformers

Why was early Christianity so obsessed with the rich?

Jason Crawford reviews “Where is my flying car?”

My summary of After Virtue

The danger of involution

Handwriting boosts learning

Can we prime people to take risk?

Climate: is there any hope?

Remaining Chapters Posted

Civilisation is a recent development in world history; at just 6,000 years old, it is a young organism compared to the h

It is commonly argued that artificial general intelligence (AGI), unaligned with human values, represents an existential

Morality and meaning are in crisis, and the solution involves recovering the Aristotelian idea of a telos.

Is it the destiny of the West to die? For Oswald Spengler, the answer was yes. In The Decline of the West he argued that