Optimally Irrational

The truth about sport

Why we really care about it

Sep 11 • 

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August 2025

Friendship politics

Everything you have always wanted to know on friendship

Aug 26 • 

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Why science is politically disruptive

With a few examples

Aug 15 • 

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Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side

The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

What are the chances you’re right about everything?

The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles

Jul 23 • 

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June 2025

Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters?

Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left

Jun 24 • 

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Why has the left gentrified?

In my previous post I described the phenomenon of gentrification of the left and placed in a decades-long process of demographic and ideological…

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

The gentrification of the left

And the popularisation of the right in Western countries

May 30 • 

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Why and how political ideas matter

Political ideologies both reflect the world and help shape it

May 15 • 

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Dystopia is closer than you think

We take our usual way of life too much for granted

May 6 • 

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April 2025

Why Mearsheimer is wrong

A criticism of Mershmeier "great power politics": The misjudgement of too little realism

Apr 25 • 

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The entropy of victory

Why empires crumble, why revolutions eat their own children, and why there will always be conflicts in office politics

Apr 19 • 

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