Articles and Op-Eds

Data scientist David Rozado and political philosopher Steve McIntosh teamed up to build a political AI in response to the countless reports of how social media is exacerbating political polarization.

As we find that machines can’t become conscious, this illuminates humanity’s higher purpose.

Both kinds of traditional knowledge can be respected and safely included by using a liberal approach.

What does it mean, in general terms, to be human?

We can disentangle ourselves from this gordian knot of racialization

By extinguishing Roe v. Wade’s constitutional abortion rights, the court has created the acute need for a national compromise

Our crisis of expertise is really a crisis of governance

Our cultural confusion over hierarchy is a kind of decoder ring for understanding the culture wars

A culturally synthetic interpretation of history can help reconcile America’s competing moral systems

The Problem with “Don’t Look Up” and a call for climate pragmatism

Interview from the “Free Black Thought” podcast focusing on a post-progressive approach to anti-racism

Contemporary political centrism is rooted in a worldview that is in the process of being superseded by the progress of history

How and why America’s major worldviews see climate change in such different terms

California’s dysfunction may represent the future of urban politics in America

Using “cultural intelligence” to integrate more gratitude into our grievances

When did the anthems of self-acceptance become the soundtracks of insurrection?

Toward an omni-inclusive post-progressive vision

In today’s polarized climate, being moderate has become a radical position

The ethical challenge of our time requires a more complex appreciation of different worldviews

Keystone College lecture from 2017: text and slides

Civic Nationalism considered from a developmental perspective, from 2017

Cultural evolution is really the only viable permanent solution to radical Islamism, from 2015

2014 article proposing a “synthesis platform” designed to address the America’s political stalemate

2013 white paper focusing on the cultural dimensions of ameliorating climate change

From 2014 through 2016 the Institute for Cultural Evolution convened a series of invitational conclaves on hyperpolarization