Archive - Optimally Irrational

July 2025

What are the chances you’re right about everything?

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

Jul 23 •

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 •

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 •

May 2025

April 2025

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