EP 280 Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs
January 30, 2025
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Episode 280 · January 30, 2025
EP 280 Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs
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Jim talks with Rob Henderson about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class and the concept of luxury beliefs. They discuss Rob's journey from foster care to Yale and Cambridge, Jim's background, the decline in two-parent families from 1960 to 2005, changing forms of elite hypocrisy, intra-elite competition, corporate adoption of woke beliefs, enforcement of ideological conformity, the spread of academic ideas into mainstream culture, attributions of success, drugs and gambling as luxury beliefs, the self-control aristocracy, Western environmentalism's impact on Sub-Saharan Africa, elite opinion vs public opinion, and much more.
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