Ideology

Let’s Just Stop Using the Term “Populism”

At this point, the term has lost almost all meaning, except as a pejorative.

Aug 26 • Michael Magoon

Did Classical Liberalism Create the Modern Economy?

Or Did It Codify the Practices of a Few Pioneering Commercial Societies?

Mar 12 • Michael Magoon

How a Generation of Young Women Moved Left after 2010, And Why

Biology, declining marriage/religion, social media, and the moralization of distress

Dec 30, 2025 • Michael Magoon

The Rise of the San Francisco Democrats

from the fringes of American politics to dominant Power Brokers

Dec 23, 2025 • Michael Magoon

The Most Dangerous Minds Aren’t Like Ours, And Now We Can Prove It

Yes, We Now Have Direct Evidence Linking Radical Ideology to Mental Disorder

Dec 10, 2025 • Michael Magoon

The Democratic Party’s Internal Revolution: Why Its Coalition Looks Nothing Like 1963

How five decades of demographic shifts and wave elections quietly remade the party.

Dec 9, 2025 • Michael Magoon

Me, myself and Karl Marx

Why Karl Marx and I Start at the Same Place but End Worlds Apart

Dec 4, 2025 • Michael Magoon

Explaining the "Long March through American Institutions"

How Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies really captured most American institutions over the last 50 years.

Dec 2, 2025 • Michael Magoon

Why Radical Ideologies Rise, and Why They Always Collapse

A Psychological Framework for Explaining the Rise and Self-Destruction of Radical Ideologies

Nov 25, 2025 • Michael Magoon

What are Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies?

And what core moral assumptions do they share?

Nov 18, 2025 • Michael Magoon

What caused the Youth Revolt of the late 1960s?

The story of how the most prosperous generation in history created a new secular faith that still governs our culture today.

Nov 11, 2025 • Michael Magoon

Alt Hist: WHAT IF Lenin stayed in Switzerland in 1917?

What if the man who most shaped the 20th Century missed his train?

Oct 28, 2025 • Michael Magoon

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