Essayist and thinker writing on philosophy, misinformation, and intellectual culture.
Dan Williams promotes this book because it reframes human gullibility and trust through an evolutionary psychological lens.
Dan Williams values this work because it provides an analytical, evidence-based examination of social justice ideology that fills a critical gap in existing academic literature.
Dan Williams values this work for providing a systematic, data-driven explanation of how unimportant issue differences evolved into lasting political tribalism.
“What we hope we have done in our book is explain why this happened, and just as importantly, show systematically, using multiple surveys and experiments, that this process was real and lasting”
Dan Williams values this work because it provides a necessary, non-reductionist framework for understanding the four distinct sources of social power.
“Power, Mann argues, has at least four distinct sources: political, economic, military, and ideological.”