How Testosterone Collapse Leads to Social Conflict, Trade Wars, Economic Collapse, and Great Depression

  May 31, 2018  |    Leave a comment

To understand our current deteriorating sociopolitical and economic environment it’s instructive to view current events through the lens of a broad social-science perspective. In this article I wish to apply our scientific knowledge to explain why the economic and financial boom–bust cycles tend to end in periods of social and economic depression.   Recently, President… Read More

Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt and the New Synthesis

  May 12, 2018

Professor Jordan Peterson is an intellectual leader of our time. He is taking part in a new scientific revolution, a groundbreaking effort to understand the workings of the human mind, culture, and religious worldviews and how they are shaped by evolved psychological adaptations that determine our social structure and philosophy of life. This new scientific… Read More

Light and Enlightenment philosophy

  November 2, 2017

      As I marked with arrows on the chart, rising solar activity impelled the period of the Enlightenment, particularly by Puritans in England: from the natural philosophy of Newton and John Locke’s ideal of liberty, to the Founding Fathers of the United States in 1776. But, as solar radiation peaked, then began a long… Read More

Sex Wars: the Origins of Social and Political Conflict

  August 14, 2017  |    Leave a comment

Taxes, healthcare, national security. These are the issues that most people would say differentiate one political party from another, one candidate from another. But in fact, these issues are only symptomatic of what actually differentiates candidates: sex. The 2016 presidential elections in the United States—Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump—exemplified how gender manifests in political conflict,… Read More