Sitemap - 2023 - The Garden of Forking Paths

What would authoritarian America look like?

Will the Gävle Goat survive this Christmas?

Happy Anniversary to The Garden of Forking Paths! (And recommended brain food for you)

From the Glass King to QAnon

Judge a democracy by its scandals

The Evolution of Modern Dogs

The Biggest Hidden Bias in Politics

FLUKE: Part Two of the Opening Chapter

FLUKE (An Exclusive Sneak Preview)

The Red Queen Fallacy

One Year To Go: Will Trump Return to the White House?

The Hannibal Directive and the Dark Politics of Hostages

What to watch and read this week

Are our lives an unbroken circle or a straight line?

The Politics of the Pariah

How to Understand Our World in 10 Charts

Who had the most kids in history? Or, humanity's near-extinction and why it matters for us all.

Rishi Sunak wants to prove The Thick of It is a documentary

Introducing...FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

The Case for Amplifying Trump's Insanity

Did leaded gasoline cause a huge spike in crime?

Why Accountability Matters for Trump

How tall was Jesus? Or, measurement and the making of the modern world.

My "Life in the UK" Test and a Great British Travel Guide

Gerrymander to Save American Democracy

Signalling Theory, Twitter, and the Fake Blue Tick

Prigozhin is dead. But Putin is now weaker.

The Ten Days that Didn't Exist

How Dictators Lie about Economic Growth

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Experiment with Everything

The Day Four Million Children Disappeared

Interstate 35-W and the Murder of George Floyd

The Funhouse Mirror of Trumpistan

The Rise of Counterfeit Democracy

Blood Diamonds and the Lottery of Earth

The Forgotten Mystery of the Great Hedge of India

How to Fix the US Supreme Court

The origins of power dynamics, or why chimps can't play baseball

Confessions of a TV Pundit

Why the Russian Coup Plot Failed

Where do good ideas come from?

How I Won a Disinformation Battle — But Lost the War

The Lost Art of the Ideal and the Cycle of Futility

Representation and the Power of Randomness

A Tale of Two D-Day Cemeteries

The Case for Pro-Democracy Rituals

Evolution and Our Obsession with True Crime

Who Supports Political Violence in America?

"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance

Why Psychopaths Rise / Ask Me Anything

The Billion Dollar Shack

Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence

How Trump Could Win

How Germs Shaped History

The Rise of Granfalloon Politics

The Age of the Surefire Mediocre

The "Need for Chaos" Voter

The Greatest Fluke of All-Time

The Missing Covid Origin Debate

The Hidden Plight of the Street Level Bureaucrat

We need sting operations for politicians

How do school shootings affect voting?

The last Arab Spring democracy is dying

The Last Statements of Death Row

The Hit Song Secretly Paid for by the US Government

Jimmy Carter's Hidden Legacy

The Return of Supersonic Flight

How many politicians are psychopaths?

The Superb Owl and Nature's Stealth Wisdom

The Republican Trifecta of Extremism

The Most Rigged Election in History

Why the world isn't as bad as you think

How predictable are humans?

How to Reduce Police Violence

Garden of Curiosities #1: Recommendations, Asteroids, and the Handel/Hendrix House

Did humans start writing 10,000+ years earlier than we thought?

The Dictator's Voodoo Priests and the Forgotten Attack on the White House

Schemas and the Political Brain

Bolsonaro, Trump, and Authoritarian Learning

The Ten Days That Didn't Exist

Treat Politicians Like the Rest of Us