The Social Pathologist

Jason Richwine recently put up a rather good post over at Politico.  Why can't we talk about IQ should really be titled Why cant we t...

As mentioned in our previous post, most people tend to be Cognitive Misers. i.e. System 1 thinkers. It's important to point out, how...

Gasset wasn't the first to notice the phenomenon of mass-man. Marx recognised his type in the lumpen-proletariat and Mencken saw his...

What fundamentally weakens Gasset's book is Gasset's own philosophical system; which, despite his accurate analysis of the problem...

Gasset's book loses steam after about mid-point and the devotes the rest of this book to the subject of the state, the cultural leadersh...

Whenever I propose to limit the franchise to a competent minority,  people immediately assume that I wish to restrict the vote to what are...

For Gasset, the decline in European Civilisation is attributed to the rise in the influence of a new type of man in history: mass-man.  A...

A book I've been meaning to write about for a while now is Ortega y Gasset's* , Revolt of the Masses. It caused quite a stir when...

In order to understand the black and liberal community outrage to the Zimmerman verdict it's best to take ourselves back to that bastion...

Recently, Roosh V put up a post on beauty which got me thinking of an article I read recently. But before I get to that, I want to put down...

As I've argued in my previous posts, one of the great problems with modern democracy is that political power is placed into the hands of...