If you were a young person currently, seeing what you're seeing, and you had the opportunity to move and settle down in some other country, what would be your top picks of sane countries in the world?
Many outlets, including Triggernometry, have argued we're past peak woke. Do you believe that? In particular, if the Democrats retake the White House in 2028 will we see a sharp return to woke policies such as unrestricted immigration?
What do you do to stay grounded while engaging with the material you write about? I find it increasingly harder to not get depressed when reality becomes beyond parody these days. TY!
Joseph Henrich's book "The WEIRDest People in the World" presents how deep seated behavioural and physiological differences between cultures came about and can be measured.
The evidence is that different cultures can fundamentally think and act differently and have very different values.
How do you think we can promote rational, debates on understanding and dealing with these rather rather than the somewhat superficial differences of colour, music, food, language and shallow aspects of religion?
Ms. Shriver was at an event in NYC last week I attended, where she said that the editor of her latest book wanted her to take out one of the characters, and I would be curious: did the editor share with her the reason for that suggestion, and if so what was it?
I’m Australian. I grew up in a migrant culture where we celebrated strange food, stranger music, and gloriously odd clothes. The only condition was simple: accept common law democracy and contribute something of value.
So here’s the uncomfortable question: how did we move from celebrating diversity within a shared civic framework to pretending the framework itself is optional — and how do we get back to insisting it isn’t?
As I read your brilliant new novel, Gloria struck me as psychologically patterned in a way that resembles certain Cluster B personality structures — not caricatured, but embedded in her moral worldview and relational style.
Were you deliberately constructing her with that psychological architecture in mind? And to what extent did you see her as emblematic of a broader strain within modern progressive politics?
In this age when many children’s names seem to be plucked from the imaginations of their parents and an old chap like me cannot tell from that name the sex of the child, how come Lionel became Lionel? Meaning no disrespect, hers was the first instance where I have seen that name used for a female.
You’ve lived in both the U.S. and the U.K. Do you see different cultural responses to immigration? Which society has been more honest about trade-offs?
I don't have a question for Ms Shriver, but I do have a suggestion for a future interview. Are you guys familiar with Peter Schweizer's book "The Invisible Coup"? The theme of the book is weaponization of mass migration by foreign governments as a tool of subversion of US culture and politics. This isn't a new concept. Castro successfully used it with the Mariel boat lift in the 1970's.
A Jewish friend of mine had to leave her job at an American university after 10/7. She took a job at a German university because she found it to be a more supportive environment than the Jew-hatred she encountered in American academia. One of the aspects of the recent Left-Wing Jew-hatred is that Jews are somehow considered ultra-white, and not a minority. Do you think this Jew-hatred based on Critical Theory/Wokeism was an inevitable result of the ideology?
What is the correct way to do immigration? Is it enough to be looking for work? Should you hold the same values as the host country? Should you be ethnically in line with or close to the ethnicity if the host country? So, what metric is the most important?
If you were a young person currently, seeing what you're seeing, and you had the opportunity to move and settle down in some other country, what would be your top picks of sane countries in the world?
I'm thinking Greenland - a hedge with a hold out few acres ! Come get me Don Magachese it'll cost ya !
Many outlets, including Triggernometry, have argued we're past peak woke. Do you believe that? In particular, if the Democrats retake the White House in 2028 will we see a sharp return to woke policies such as unrestricted immigration?
What do you do to stay grounded while engaging with the material you write about? I find it increasingly harder to not get depressed when reality becomes beyond parody these days. TY!
Hi Lionel, what do you think the people who say "diversity is our strength" REALLY believe?
To any sane 16 year old its obvious that groups tend to prefer themselves, not work or integrate with others unless necesary
Joseph Henrich's book "The WEIRDest People in the World" presents how deep seated behavioural and physiological differences between cultures came about and can be measured.
The evidence is that different cultures can fundamentally think and act differently and have very different values.
How do you think we can promote rational, debates on understanding and dealing with these rather rather than the somewhat superficial differences of colour, music, food, language and shallow aspects of religion?
Ms. Shriver was at an event in NYC last week I attended, where she said that the editor of her latest book wanted her to take out one of the characters, and I would be curious: did the editor share with her the reason for that suggestion, and if so what was it?
I’m Australian. I grew up in a migrant culture where we celebrated strange food, stranger music, and gloriously odd clothes. The only condition was simple: accept common law democracy and contribute something of value.
So here’s the uncomfortable question: how did we move from celebrating diversity within a shared civic framework to pretending the framework itself is optional — and how do we get back to insisting it isn’t?
Lionel, will you tackle the many hopes, fears and unintended consequences of artificial intelligence in your next work?
As I read your brilliant new novel, Gloria struck me as psychologically patterned in a way that resembles certain Cluster B personality structures — not caricatured, but embedded in her moral worldview and relational style.
Were you deliberately constructing her with that psychological architecture in mind? And to what extent did you see her as emblematic of a broader strain within modern progressive politics?
I have a question for Lionel
In this age when many children’s names seem to be plucked from the imaginations of their parents and an old chap like me cannot tell from that name the sex of the child, how come Lionel became Lionel? Meaning no disrespect, hers was the first instance where I have seen that name used for a female.
Given that you can move to the U.S.A. What keeps you in the U.K.?
You’ve lived in both the U.S. and the U.K. Do you see different cultural responses to immigration? Which society has been more honest about trade-offs?
Will the more conservative communities and religions be the ultimate winners in the birth rate crisis? And what will that mean for the future?
I don't have a question for Ms Shriver, but I do have a suggestion for a future interview. Are you guys familiar with Peter Schweizer's book "The Invisible Coup"? The theme of the book is weaponization of mass migration by foreign governments as a tool of subversion of US culture and politics. This isn't a new concept. Castro successfully used it with the Mariel boat lift in the 1970's.
A Jewish friend of mine had to leave her job at an American university after 10/7. She took a job at a German university because she found it to be a more supportive environment than the Jew-hatred she encountered in American academia. One of the aspects of the recent Left-Wing Jew-hatred is that Jews are somehow considered ultra-white, and not a minority. Do you think this Jew-hatred based on Critical Theory/Wokeism was an inevitable result of the ideology?
What is the correct way to do immigration? Is it enough to be looking for work? Should you hold the same values as the host country? Should you be ethnically in line with or close to the ethnicity if the host country? So, what metric is the most important?