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Category Archives: Evolution
To Be Seen Learning
A man walks into the beis medrash on Shabbos morning. He wears a black Borsalino, brushed, the brim shaped the way the older baalei batim shape it. He takes a seat three rows from the mizrach wall, close enough to … Continue reading
The Empathy Myth: Literature, Status, and the American English Department
Teaching literature gets sold as expanding our empathy. But empathy did not evolve to reach strangers. It evolved to manage coalitions. When English professors claim their discipline makes students more ethical, they are making a resource argument dressed as a … Continue reading
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Does This Story Make Evolutionary Sense?
On May 21, 2025, David Pinsof wrote a blog post that changed me forever. He said: A lot of people ask me how I write blog posts—where I get my ideas from. They’re often surprised when I give them a … Continue reading
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The Law vs The Nature
What law-abiding Americans experience in their most private lives is not random frustration but a structural conflict between two systems solving different problems. Evolution optimizes individuals for reproductive success. Law optimizes coalitions for stability. When those two logics collide, the … Continue reading
Hybrid Vigor & Other Useful Biological Theories For Understanding Society
According to Wikipedia: “Heterosis, hybrid vigor, or outbreeding enhancement is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring… Typical heterotic/hybrid traits of interest in agriculture are higher yield, quicker maturity, stability, drought tolerance etc.” I … Continue reading
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Making Sense Of The World Through Evolution
David Pinsof writes: A lot of people ask me how I write blog posts—where I get my ideas from. They’re often surprised when I give them a precise, step-by-step answer. Here’s my patented ® formula for writing Everything Is Bullshit … Continue reading
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Decoding Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule
Adrian Vermeule is a Harvard Law professor who converted to Catholicism and became one of the most provocative legal theorists in American academia. He advances what he calls Common Good Constitutionalism, a framework that rejects the liberal premise that the … Continue reading
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Why does evolutionary psychology receive such opprobrium?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory explains the hostility to evolutionary psychology much better than disputes about evidence or methods. The backlash is not mainly about whether the claims are true. It’s about what those claims do to coalition politics. 1. Evolutionary … Continue reading
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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
Why do elites love the false contention that we evolved to be gullible with regard to our vital interests? Gemini says: Hugo Mercier’s Not Born Yesterday book provides the perfect foundation to use Alliance Theory to dismantle the persistent cultural … Continue reading
Everything Is Bullshit vs Orthodox Judaism
I revere David Pinsof’s evolutionary psychology (Everything is Bullshit) and I revere Orthodox Judaism. They both make sense to me but to the world, they contradict. How do I navigate this challenge and how do I explain it? Gemini says: … Continue reading