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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?...

Is Weimar-America Worth Dying For?

A country is more than a government, a flag or a line drawn on a map. At its best, it is a community that people feel connected to, an inheritance that gives them something worth preserving, and a promise that the next generation might enjoy a better future. But what happens when that promise begins to disappear? When the language of national duty remains intact while confidence in the institutions...

Japan's New Internet Insult: "Pocahontas"

Every so often, the internet produces an insult so unexpected that it deserves a closer look. China's “Baizuo” was one example: a word that condensed a particular criticism of Western liberalism into a single, memorable label. Now, an equally curious expression is attracting attention in discussions of Japanese dating culture: “Pocahontas.” What is the word supposed to mean, why is it being used in this context, and what does it...

Chris Hansen Was Just the Beginning

Outrage is one of the internet's most reliable commodities. Give an audience a villain, a confrontation, and a reason to feel morally superior, and the engagement can come flooding in. Online predator hunting sits at a particularly uncomfortable intersection of public safety, entertainment, and the economics of attention.  Many viewers arrive believing they are watching justice unfold, but the incentives behind the camera deserve scrutiny too. Does the pursuit of...

Why the DSA Will Win

The debate between capitalism and socialism often encourages people to choose a side before examining the underlying problems. Yet acknowledging weaknesses in capitalism does not require accepting every socialist proposal, just as recognizing the historical failures of socialism does not mean ignoring economic insecurity under market-based systems. A serious discussion needs to consider incentives, institutional limits, historical evidence, and the real experiences of ordinary people. My latest video explores precisely...

Paris Has Fallen

The central arrondissements of Paris still photograph well. Architecture remains. What visitors describe, and what the psychiatric accounts record, is everything around that architecture: litter, graffiti, aggressive street behavior, and a population that no longer matches the cultured image sold abroad. For some arrivals the mismatch is merely annoying. For a documented minority it is destabilizing. And given the complete replacement in population it is not going to get any...

Has Europe Been Pushed Too Far?

Another round of street violence in France has produced the familiar official response: nothing fundamental can be altered and the native population must simply adjust. The historical record on divided populations is less comforting and far less passive. Demographic and political settlements that once looked fixed have repeatedly come apart once the underlying assumptions changed. Between the early 1920s and the mid-1970s, Europe and its near abroad saw formal exchanges,...