I am trying to track my thinking over time in how to model the behaviour of churches in response to public opinion changes on a given issue. Part 1 and Part 2 show that this has been a longer process than I anticipated. I am still trying to use the two-dimensional framework that I used in Part 2, …

One of the reasons Plato is still read¹ is that his work remains surprisingly relevant to today’s political problems. I discovered that myself while reading Book VIII of Plato’s Republic,² which sees Socrates and Glaucon describing four different types or classes of regimes. I say four …

In the glory days of anthropology, Western researchers would travel all over the world compiling ethnographies of the peoples and cultures they encountered. The goal was impartial and exhaustive recording of what those peoples and societies were like; they were there as dispassionate observers. An …