Brink Lindsey

America's Internal Brain Drain In 1963, the Royal Society in the United Kingdom issued a report complaining about the emigration of British scientists to the United States, lured by higher salaries and better living conditions.

New at The Permanent Problem: America in cognitive decline
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Jonathan Rauch on Christianity and Democracy While the formal separation of church and state is a vital element of America's constitutional order, the success of our long-running experiment in self-government has always depended on a healthy int...

New up today at The Permanent Problem: my podcast discussion with Jonathan Rauch about his new book Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/jonathan-r...

Abundance and the Permanent Problem On April 2, President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day” and announced the imposition of dramatically higher tariffs on imports into the country.

New up at The Permanent Problem: my take on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's new book and how the fledgling abundance movement responds to the “permanent problem.” brinklindsey.substack.com/p/abundance-...

I am confused as to what this sort of revisionism is intended to accomplish.

Quite a lot of people very obviously thought that, man. People have been coming here for a reason.

There's a reason there's a giant statue of Bill Clinton in Kosovo; we didn't put it there.

The Open Society and the Friends It Needs (Part 2) (Warning: this is a long one.

You'll like the second part of the essay more, or at least hate it less. (FYI I am on this site, so you can link to me whenever you happen to write about me.) brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-open-s...

The Open Society and the Friends It Needs (Part 2) (Warning: this is a long one.

New up at The Permanent Problem: Is the “open society” to blame for our cultural dysfunctions? Is Trump 2.0 the answer? (tldr, hell no to both) brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-open-s...

Yes, this is the way: pick an issue where at least two-thirds of America disagrees with you and act as if they're all contemptibly stupid. That'll work for sure.

The Open Society and the Friends It Needs (Part 1) This is the first essay I’ve posted on this site since May 2024 — I’ve been away, turning the previous essays published here into a book.

New up at The Permanent Problem -- reflections on the failure of the anti-Trump "resistance." brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-open-s...

Symbolic capitalists and “awokenings”, with Musa al-Gharbi - Niskanen Center On this episode of The Permanent Problem podcast, host Brink Lindsey sits down with al-Gharbi to discuss his new book, reviewing the rise of "symbolic capitalists" to economic and cultural dominance a...

My conversation with Musa al-Gharbi on the rise of “symbolic capitalists” is now up on the Niskanen website as well. www.niskanencenter.org/symbolic-cap...

Musa al-Gharbi on Symbolic Capitalists and "Awokenings" The rightward shift in public opinion that carried Donald Trump back into the White House is being widely interpreted as a backlash against the "Great Awokening" of the past decade — a surge in radica...

New up at The Permanent Problem after a 6-month book-writing hiatus: a podcast with Musa al-Gharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke, on the rise of “symbolic capitalists” and “awokenings” past and present. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/musa-al-gh...

Edge City Podcast 03: Brink Lindsey | Blog | Edge City What does it mean to lead a flourishing life, and how can we create a flourishing society? In this episode of the Edge City Podcast, host Timour Kosters talks with Brink Lindsey about these fundamenta...

A fun, wide-ranging discussion on the Edge City podcast. www.edgecity.live/blog/edge-ci...

Brink Lindsey - What Is A Flourishing Life? What Is A Flourishing Society? | Edge City Lanna YouTube video by Edge City

My talk at Edge City Lanna in Chiang Mai on the nature of human flourishing. I spent a week in late October hanging out at this month-long “popup village”—what a fun and fascinating experience! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Ne...

The world of tomorrow - Works in Progress When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?

Great essay by Virginia on on the lost glamour of progress. Very interested in her thoughts on what could make the future seem glamorous again—we need a futurism that responds to people’s present longing for the physically real and authentic human connection. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wo...

I hardly ever post at Twitter anymore, so I thought I'd try hardly ever posting here as well.