I’m David Hugh-Jones, a social scientist currently working in an economics department. This newsletter focuses on my interests, including social science, genetics, history, culture and politics. The drunken ramblings of two Tang-dynasty poets may also feature. I aim to be sometimes serious, sometimes entertaining, and sometimes both at once.
Wyclif’s Dust the book is available now on Amazon:
Western societies have some problems, including political extremism, declining trust, and behavioural issues like the opiate and mental health crises. These problems did not come from nowhere: they have roots in the dramatic cultural changes of the late twentieth century. To understand them, we must rethink our own history.
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Our new working paper: trading social status for genetics in marriage markets
A practical guide to Victorian values: parts one, two, three
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I used to be on Blogger. Some of my favourite writings from there:
Death and the salesman — in which the author attends a conference of libertarians and gets drunk. ‘Nancy Maclean, get in touch. I have material for Democracy in Chains 2: the Alt-Rightening.’
Inside the incompletely-baked establishment conspiracy to foil Brexit — in which the author attends a conference of Bremainers and gets drunk. ‘Someone said, “I don’t see why we can’t use the Single Transferable Vote.”
Sounds optimal.’
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