My point is more like the right has a movement to pander to in the first place. So we shouldn't ask "Why don't Democrats care about leftist Joe Rogan?" but instead "Is there a leftist version of Joe Rogan?" and the answer is not really. That's not a problem to be solved from the top down.

I don't like that this perspective is still about essentially how can the big men of the Democratic party understand the people from the top-down. The renaissance of the American right is clearly a bottom-up, populist movement.

Do you think there were good things in spite of the hegemony (i.e., cultural hegemony is only bad) or do you think the hegemony itself brought certain good parts?

Religion wasn't invented, and I don't mean that as a theological claim. Most religions are not Abrahamic and your two points might be tenuous at best when applied to them. E.g., Confucianism doesn't say anything concrete about the afterlife.

Wonder some of the finer details about this work. At least in the US, the number of people who are nominally Christian is high but the rate of people going to church is much lower. How do the rates of disaffiliation change if you consider also people who are barely practicing it as adults?

Iran managed to get past essentially the most advanced anti-air defense in the world and levelled part of Israel's equivalent of MIT (one of the top scientific institutes in the world even, Weizmann Institute). I am not feeling great about escalation.

Do you think AI can't help scholars save time or energy in this process? Of course it cannot be used to read everything...

Tempted just to stick with renormalization group ideas for thinking about emergence. Emergent behavior is what arises from an irreversible coarse-graining of a system to larger scales

This is rather the triangle inequality

Nice article that gives Freud his due credit, for pioneering talk therapy. And psychoanalysis is still alive in continental Europe

The chart is plotted as the difference from the SM prediction times 10^9