Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Brian Klaas
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I wrote about the stranger-than-fiction miracles of coevolution in nature and human society—and a smarter framework to understand ourselves. (Or: what connects avocados, ants who farm fungus, karma, and our relationship with dogs?)
Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off
This is a long read but it's
about the most positive thing I've seen in a while.
Ostensibly (and constructively) about homelessness and
poverty but relatable to broader politics and governance
Excellent article:
"Greater Change’s results are impressive. According to their own checks, 85 percent of their clients have achieved 'permanent housing or sustained stable housing' in 2024-25. And 39 percent of their clients got a job in the aftermath of the intervention from Greater Change...."
"ants became farmers roughly 66 million years earlier than we did."
The same is true of the Black Death, Mount Tambora’s eruption and the Mongol Invasions.
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
A GREAT read. Please have a look…
“Most government policies remain based on hunches, what lawmakers say will work, rather than by testing various options to verify what works best. No experiments done, no evidence required.”
This is actually incredibly interesting
Heartwarming attitudes and actions that should spread worldwide
"Our enduring inability to separate out homelessness from blame and those who “deserve” support ends up blinding us to what is ultimately an empirical question over what works and what doesn’t."
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The stranger-than-fiction miracles of coevolution in nature and human society. (Or: what connects avocados, ants who farm fungus, karma, and our relationship with dogs?)
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
A new charity is tackling homelessness with a simple approach. Does it work?
I wrote about the stranger-than-fiction miracles of coevolution in nature and human society—and a smarter framework to understand ourselves. (Or: what connects avocados, ants who farm fungus, karma, and our relationship with dogs?)
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...
The stranger-than-fiction miracles of coevolution in nature and human society. (Or: what connects avocados, ants who farm fungus, karma, and our relationship with dogs?)
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
A new charity is tackling homelessness with a simple approach. Does it work?
