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Green Day Saw This Coming

When Mike Judge released *Idiocracy* in 2006, its premise was absurd enough to be funny: an average man wakes up in a future where intellectual standards have collapsed so dramatically that he becomes the smartest person around. Two decades later, the uncomfortable question is no longer whether such a future is imaginable. It's whether we've mistaken the warning signs for entertainment. In the latest Felix Rex video, I examine the...

The Impossible Alliance

Political alliances are often explained through shared values, common interests, or a vision of the future. But what happens when none of those explanations seems entirely sufficient? Across contemporary Western politics, movements with very different beliefs have increasingly found themselves rallying around the same international cause.  Their differences are not trivial, and the question of what connects them deserves more than a superficial answer.  In my latest video, I explore...

Democracy Believers Were Wrong

The costs of a changing society are not always captured by conventional economic measures. Consider the time spent verifying agreements, the additional precautions people take, or the growing importance of personal networks when confidence in impersonal institutions declines. Each may seem insignificant in isolation. Together, they can affect how people work, cooperate, and plan for the future.  My new video explores the hidden importance of social trust and why its...

She Voted for This

A few seconds of footage can become a political Rorschach test. Some viewers see regret; others see hypocrisy, confusion or a convenient symbol for everything they already believe. But how much can we really know about a stranger from a brief expression? The more interesting question is why millions of people are so eager to assign that expression a meaning. The video looks beyond the immediate spectacle to examine the...

Europe, You're Next

https://youtu. be/HHYAnVPRl9I France's impossible position  —  France appears to be approaching a moment when the usual political compromises may no longer work. Spend more, and the financial pressures deepen. Cut back, and the political backlash could be severe. Keep postponing the hard decisions, and the eventual reckoning becomes more difficult. How did a country with France's resources and institutions arrive at a position where every option seems to carry a...

The Wine Aunt Age-Gap MELTDOWN

We're constantly told that women are independent adults who can make their own romantic choices. Until, apparently, they choose a man the internet disapproves of. Then suddenly everyone becomes a relationship expert, amateur psychologist and self-appointed guardian of female agency. Apparently, a man dating a younger woman is now enough to trigger an entire internet tribunal. But is all this outrage really about protecting women—or is something else going on?...