Daron Acemoglu co-authored a book that analyses the various factors leading to failed states. As I live in Africa, this is particularly relevant to me.
I live in Africa.
South Africa, to be precise.
Almost every country on the continent could be labelled a 'failed state' and it’s something I’ve often thought about. Is it because Black people can’t govern effectively? If so, what about the North African countries governed by Arabs?
I don't know but it's probably more nuanced.
Nations fail when their elites rig the rules to benefit themselves at the expense of the many, creating a cycle of exploitation.
— Daron Acemoglu
And it is, say Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson who authored Why Nations Fail.
Daron is a professor at MIT and James is a professor at the University of Chicago. Both received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.
We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies.
It’s an information war.
What is true?
I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out.
In this livestream I touch on a pile of things: drinking coffee, writing in a journal, why we change, dealing with anger, the Russian plague hoax, contagion, the decline of White people, why tribalism is okay, and why I love Temu.
Banned Irish nationalist Keith Woods explains his views on race, IQ and ethnicity, traces how the race taboo was built from Boas to UNESCO, and makes his case for small, homogeneous, high-trust nations.
Donald Brown sat down with me to chat about Afrikaner identity, the failure of democracy, foreign destabilisation of South Africa, and why everything, politics included, is downstream from culture.
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