Society

Peter Boghossian, co-author of How To Have Impossible Conversations, and a former professor at Portland State University returns to our show to help us understand the mindset of those pushing the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DIE) agenda. To help me, and hopefully you, Peter agreed to “steelman” the argument, which means to address the strongest […]

You, me, everyone is now part of large and sustained social and psychological experiments being run without our knowledge or our permission. The purpose of these experiments is to craft the best means for persuading “the public” to go along with something. While we can all hope that the “something” is benign or possibly even […]

It is absolutely urgent and required that we share a coherent sense of reality. Yes, we can have differences of opinion, but we cannot afford to have different facts or to indulge in fantasies or embrace mental illness. We exist as we do courtesy of a highly complex, just-in-time global economy and financial system that […]

This is the presentation I gave to open up our annual seminar. It’s important and needs to be shared. Our view, my view, at Peak Prosperity is that the world is full of increasingly large risks and there’s nobody really in charge who either grasps it or, even if they did, could realistically do anything […]

George Orwell’s book 1984 described physical holes down which uncomfortable or unwanted news literally disappeared to be consumed in gigantic furnaces. They were called “memory holes.” Today their equivalent are detected in the form of events that somehow either disappear from the news quickly, or simply don’t make the news at all. In this episode, […]