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Best-selling author of "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" | Senior Fellow, @ManhattanInst | All Views My Own

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1Apr 30, '25You keep saying you don’t have time, he did all this in 27 seconds.153×11.2M193k14k20k
2Jun 13, '24One reason why Costco is so popular among working and lower middle class, especially families and the elderly. The membership program turns the store into a sanctuary from miscrean79.7×5.8M26k2k5.5k
3Jun 30, '24The decline of the headphone jack has released an epidemic of braindead mouthbreathers playing videos in public spaces. Airpods are expensive but even if you manage to get them the66.1×4.8M39k2.5k2.4k
4Nov 17, '24Bill Maher says something completely inoffensive, that McDonald's is delicious, and his panel acts as if he has just dropped a bombshell piece of information. Part of assimilation 59.5×4.3M13k6252.5k
5Jul 9, '23Every so often I remember this event. The Asian kid who was diligently studying and said, "Hey this is library" was unaware that he'd be in a better position to ascend in American 47.7×3.5M11k1k1.3k
6Feb 14, '25Broadly, men's self-help tells men they suck and that if they work hard maybe they can suck less. Women’s self-help tells the women they are already amazing and the problem is they41.4×3M20k1.3k5.7k
7Feb 7, '24Firefighters and MBA students were asked how they'd feel if they bought a new car, showed their friend, and next day the friend buys the same kind of car % who report they'd feel: 34.5×2.5M7.1k7621.9k
8Jul 24, '2320% of the population is responsible for... •100% of criminal convictions •99% of govt benefits received •84% of cigarettes smoked •83% of credit card debt •78% of all injuries •6733.7×2.5M5.8k8583.4k
9Nov 7, '25The interviewer set a clever trap for Sweeney but framed it as a favor ("give you an opportunity") and she effortlessly swerved out of it. Two experts at social chess here. Your pu31.3×2.3M19k5804k
10Mar 19, '2356% of liberal white women aged 18-29 have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.28.7×2.1M11k2.8k2k
11Mar 2, '23They eliminated standardized testing before they eliminated legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.28.3×2.1M8.5k1.1k220
12Aug 21, '23Some are surprised that 40% of U.S. women have tattoos. A major social class divide. Very few upper and upper middle class women have them. But just about every working class woman28×2M4.4k5381.4k
13Feb 25, '25In the past 10 years there’s been linguistic shift where instead of saying “Someone told me XYZ,” people now say “Had someone tell me XYZ.” An extension of main character syndrome 25.3×1.8M6.5k282879
14Aug 26, '24"while men are nearly 18 percent faster than women in 5K races, they are only 11 percent faster in marathons, 3.7 percent faster at 50 miles, roughly even as they approach 100 mile24.2×1.8M8.2k6242.7k
15Jul 7, '23Face images computed by averaging people's perceptions of their political out-group. Liberals' perception of conservatives (bottom right) is the one that's "not like the others."23.2×1.7M5.4k6731.6k
16Apr 16, '23The Warren Buffet test to determine whether you live a blessed life:21.7×1.6M7.6k1.1k1.3k
17Jan 2, '24People are slowly realizing they held the wrong mental model of young men. The wrong mental model says that young men are natural risk-seekers and will naturally want to approach (21.6×1.6M7.1k9973.7k
18Mar 18, '25Fascinating: White voters didn't shift at all in their voting preferences from 2016 to 2024, while nonwhite voters all shifted to the Republican side:21.4×1.6M7.2k1.2k2k
19Jul 7, '24It's in men's interest to date younger women and it's in women's interest to shame men for doing so.21.2×1.5M10k6331.2k
20Jun 16, '23Percent of births to unwed mothers 1960: 5 percent 2018: 40 percent18.5×1.3M6.9k1.2k646
21Aug 8, '23In terms of effect on happiness... -Being in good physical health is worth an extra $400K/year -Being married=$100K -Seeing a friend regularly=$100K How nice that cultural and econ16.7×1.2M4.7k4681.1k
22Jul 19, '25In high school, you get 155 hours on Hitler, 3 minutes on Stalin, and nothing on Pol Pot. Nothing on Mao. Barely a mention of Fidel Castro. It's striking that we don’t learn about 16.6×1.2M33k7.3k5.3k
23Dec 25, '23One reason why working class people resist upward social mobility: many disapprove of the duplicity, savvy self-promotion, and artful deceit required to advance in the world of the16.5×1.2M5.1k7152.5k
24Mar 27, '25Japan has more ninja swords per capita than any country on earth but mysteriously there are no calls to ban them over there. A true head scratcher.16.4×1.2M39k3.8k1k
25Jan 28, '2455% of Ivy League graduates believe that the U.S. "provides too much individual freedom" compared with just 16% of ordinary U.S. voters.15.1×1.1M4.7k940704
26Jan 7, '24Conversation I had last week with a guy I'd just met while traveling. After we exchanged names and basic social niceties: Me "So do you enjoy living here now?" Him "Yeah, it's so m15.1×1.1M5k168287
27Aug 2, '23Arthur Schopenhauer on avoiding the Current Thing:15×1.1M11k2.2k2.1k
28Mar 7, '25"babies don't sleep well when not being held or cuddles because they've been molded by millions of years of natural selection to feel uneasy about lack of proximity...there hasn't 14.6×1.1M18k1.2k5.5k
29Mar 6, '25If the anti-drinking and driving movement had handed out free beers, destigmatized impaired driving, and created spaces to do it without stigma, they would have successfully reduce14.3×1M18k1.1k2.4k
30Jan 17, '25"males are more concerned with abstract rules than females are...boys have developed complex group games...and carry on debates about rules at an abstract level. In contrast, girls14.2×1M17k1.2k6.7k
31Aug 5, '23From "Self-Made Man," a memoir of a woman who lived life disguised as a man for 1 year. The author (Norah Vincent) describes her revelation of what it's like to be a man approachin13.8×1M6k8043.6k
32Nov 29, '233 interesting findings: 1. Men in cohabiting relationships are just as satisfied in their relationships as married men, but women in cohabiting relationships are much less satisfie13.8×1M4.2k2901.5k
33Aug 22, '24Haruki Murukami on writing:11.4×830k8.6k8415.3k
34Dec 6, '24Fascinating. Young single women are uniquely resistant to radicalization and propaganda:10.8×785k8.2k4121.4k
36Jun 27, '25Mamdani is the candidate of the “haves,” who disguise their rage at the “have-mores” as concern for the “have-nots” (who don’t support Mamdani). The typical pattern you see with so10.6×772k5.9k9411.3k
37Aug 30, '251 percent of the population is responsible for 63 percent of violent crime convictions10.4×757k8.3k8901.6k
38Jul 25, '23The most unrealistic part of Barbie is when they get to the Venice beach boardwalk in LA and there are no homeless, no junkies, no vandals. Just guys that look like frat boys from 10.3×755k12k1.2k224
39Dec 5, '23A real head scratcher.10.3×753k5.6k311235
40Jan 18, '25Three interesting findings: 1. While men are nearly 18 percent faster than women in 5K races, they are only 11 percent faster in marathons, 3.7 percent faster at 50 miles, roughly 9.8×719k7.8k2691.5k
41Dec 12, '23One reason for insane helicopter parenting: Upper middle class parents taught their kids to not judge people based on appearances. But they themselves are well aware appearances ma9.8×716k4.4k435836
42Jan 2, '25"Male sexuality has no exchange value, whereas female sexuality can be traded for many things women want: not just money but also food, attention, drugs, respect, career advancemen9.6×700k5.6k4882.6k
43Aug 9, '23Three interesting findings: 1. People who believe that it's wrong to have children (anti-natalists) are much more likely to score highly on Dark Triad personality traits (psychopat9.6×698k4.2k409790
44May 7, '23Every 6 months my mind returns to this heatmap indicating that conservatives devote the majority of their empathy and care to family and friends and liberals devote most of their c9.5×696k4.8k9143.1k
45Feb 4, '25Today is the big day! My debut book, "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class," is now available in paperback. The Audiobook is narrated by yours truly. US: UK:9.5×693k1.7k190301
46Jul 20, '23If a male enjoys dressing up and behaving like a woman, he was born that way. If a female enjoys dressing up and behaving like a woman, she was brainwashed by society.9.1×661k9.1k1.2k711
47Apr 2, '25My first job at 15 was washing dishes for minimum wage. Later, I was hired as a supermarket bagger. I remember being nervous when I had to tell my restaurant manager, Jim (an ex-co8.8×641k11k4111.2k
48Nov 3, '24View post on X8.7×632k6.5k3392.1k
49Oct 2, '25Starting to get the sense that this guy is motivated by something other than “affordability.”8.6×628k15k859631
50Jul 4, '25A Black woman asked Zohran Mamdani if he identifies as Black or African American and Mamdani replied he would never do that. Turns out he would and did. Circumventing “bourgeois tr8.2×597k9k1.7k695
51Oct 6, '24San Francisco is one of those rare cities where you see dogs step in human poop.7.8×566k8.3k579318
52Jul 7, '24"A common misconception is introverts are not excitable and don’t like to socialise, but the truth is that they are just more specific about the topics they are extraverted about a7.7×563k5.2k5922.4k
53Oct 11, '23As much as they supposedly care about oppression, their true north star is power and status.7.6×557k5.1k508219
54Sep 10, '25Exactly two weeks ago, I met with Charlie Kirk. Flew out to his studio in Phoenix. Turning Point USA had a whole compound with 6 buildings out there. I noticed the building with th7.5×550k6.9k526531
55May 7, '25The land acknowledgement practice is weirdly a left-wing expression of the right-wing "blood and soil" idea that land will always belong to those who have ancestral ties, regardles7.4×539k7.9k717960
56May 17, '25Friend handed me his phone and told me to browse Grindr. In theory I knew what it was going to look like. Still. It made Tinder look like a wholesome matchmaking service for demise7.4×537k6.7k113657
57Sep 2, '25Interesting to see a liberal and a conservative both agree that liberals have destroyed the family Bill Maher: I know you think liberals want to destroy the family. David Mamet: No7.3×535k5.6k628923
58Jun 30, '25Rich kid eats rice with his hands. More performative modesty aimed at manipulating you into thinking he's just a regular guy. Like Castro in his fatigues or Mao in his peasant tuni7.3×533k8.6k749635
59Jul 4, '23Naturally, rich people will continue to have top-notch doctors and everyone else will get a doctor who got the job due to "disadvantage." Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that7.1×517k4.3k677320
60Jun 25, '25Wow who could have predicted the poor and working class would see right through this fraud.6.9×502k8k609744
61Jul 31, '23Arthur Schopenhauer on the midwit meme:6.7×491k4.9k507854
62Jul 25, '25"Elite overproduction occurs when a society produces too many people who feel entitled to high status...and try to form alliances with genuinely marginalized populations in order t6.4×466k6.8k1.1k3.4k
63Aug 25, '25“88% of the students said they pretended to be more progressive than they are to succeed academically or socially. 80% of students said they submitted class work that misrepresente6.3×461k6.5k983789
64Jul 28, '23Many upper/upper middle class people have more respect for criminals than for ordinary people working low wage jobs. They consider menial work humiliating and couldn't imagine doin6.3×460k4.3k536470
65Jul 12, '24"undergraduates’ IQs have steadily fallen from roughly 119 to a mean of 102 today — just slightly above the population average of 100. In short, undergraduates are now no more inte6.2×455k5.1k1k941
66Feb 8, '25"A wise man once told me that, in order to win an argument, it wasn’t enough just to have the correct position, you must also give your opponent a face-saving way of accepting that6.2×452k9.1k7863.8k
67May 2, '24“Kids.” Many of these protestors are undergrads, many are law and PhD students. All of them are adults. A huge segment of this country faces the full brunt of reality at 18 but if 6.0×441k6k641214
68Oct 9, '25I'm envisioning an alternate version of reality where a male politician body shames a woman for her weight, is met with outrage, then makes a TikTok saying "I meant how fat someone6.0×436k11k739954
69Oct 25, '25If Zohran’s aunt stops taking the subway because of 9/11 that’s because of bigotry. If your aunt stops taking the subway because she might get stabbed by a lunatic that’s because o5.8×426k10k808418
70Apr 24, '25There are whole passages in "Sadly, Porn" (The Last Psychiatrist Book) about men's jealousy of the intense desire women elicit. Thought the whole idea was so bizarre I didn't bothe5.7×417k5.8k3082.1k
71Sep 29, '23I don't get how people fall for the "intergenerational trauma" meme when up until ten minutes ago every human lived on the edge of death, where disease, predation, violence, and ca5.7×414k4.8k514346
72Nov 5, '25The working class didn't fall for Zohran, college grads did.5.5×401k6.2k659697
73Oct 29, '25Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the lower classes.5.3×387k7.9k828520
74Nov 8, '23Better that ordinary people in a country die of thirst than their political elites experience an ounce of shame.5.0×367k6.5k630116
75May 2, '25Insights into why you should lie to poor people:4.9×355k5.2k4691.8k
76Nov 7, '24Today at elite colleges across the country, professors and students will whine and cry while the campus dining hall workers, landscapers, and custodians will continue to prepare th4.7×344k5.2k657511
77Jul 28, '25Under Pol Pot’s regime, the communists would blindfold people, line them up, and tell them to march forward. The military and regime officials would stand behind them. At some poin4.7×340k6.7k1.5k1.2k
78Aug 24, '25Among men, there is a positive correlation between political conservatism and upper body strength.4.5×326k4.7k192290
79Jan 5, '24The clucking about whether Harvard Extension is the real Harvard reminds me of George Orwell in The Road To Wigan Pier explaining how upper middle class snobs "while theoretically 4.4×324k4.5k570354
80Nov 15, '24John Oliver went through all 4 steps in record time.4.2×307k6.3k557726
81Jul 31, '25There are Black women who have accomplished great things but cities keep choosing to build these generic statues it's bizarre. Maybe the movement really is driven by anti-excellenc4.0×293k8.9k437409
82Jan 5, '21A man who is 5 feet 6 inches tall needs to earn an additional $175,000 per year to be as desirable as a man who is about 6 feet tall A 6'2" man can earn $30,000 less than a 6' man 3.8×08k1.3k2.8k
83Jul 16, '24Hillbilly Elegy is now #1 on Amazon. The lengths some authors will go to sell books is truly incredible.3.7×271k5.1k22690
84Jun 2, '22I grew up in foster homes, fled as soon as I could by enlisting in the military at age 17, and studied psychology at Yale and Cambridge with the GI Bill + scholarships. Here are 313.4×08k1.5k4.7k
85Dec 23, '20Best books I read in 2020 1. Atomic Habits by @JamesClear “If you show up at the gym 5 days in a row—even for 2 minutes—you're casting votes for your new identity. You’re not worri3.4×08.9k1.5k4.1k
86Jun 14, '21Step 1: It's not really happening Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal Step 3: It's a good thing, actually Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real proble3.2×011k1.8k1.7k
87May 2, '25"transwomen are more likely to be sex offenders than are heterosexual men or women. In 2020...an astounding 59 percent of transwomen prisoners were sex offenders—compared with 3 pe2.9×208k4.5k1k1.1k
88Jun 20, '25Get all the money and applause for making it, then all the moral credit for saying you wouldn’t make it. Some people always know precisely the correct next move on the chess board.2.7×196k4.7k322179
89Sep 21, '22Lee Kuan Yew on Japanese culture, work ethic, and IQ.2.5×06.7k1.3k2.9k
90Apr 15, '24Interestingly if you stop recording crimes suddenly crime stats go down.2.5×184k5.5k691109
91Jul 24, '25The communist leader Pol Pot grew up relatively well-off and was introduced to Marxism and socialism while studying in France. But in a 1977 interview, he claimed he was born into 2.5×182k6.3k1.4k1.1k
92May 28, '21"a Chinese billionaire dies every 40 days...unnatural deaths have taken the lives of 72 mainland billionaires over the past 8 years...15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, 7 died2.5×06.8k2.5k748
93Mar 21, '24People of El Salvador: vote in a landslide to re-elect a president who arrests violent criminals Ivy League professor 3,400 miles away: "as appealing as a Bukele-style crackdown mi2.5×180k4.5k591198
94Feb 16, '21In 1956, Soviet leader Khrushchev delivered a speech denouncing Stalin's crimes. A heckler shouted "You were his colleague, why didn't you stop him?" Khrushchev barked back "Who sa2.2×09.3k1.6k413
95Aug 21, '22Lee Kuan Yew on American decline:2.1×06.2k1.1k1.9k
96Apr 17, '21"conservative women are particularly blissful: 40% say they are very happy. That makes them slightly happier than conservative men and significantly happier than liberal women. The1.9×06.2k1.3k590
97May 30, '22Men who can do 40 push-ups or more have a 96 percent reduced risk of heart disease compared with men who could do less than 10 push-ups. Push-ups are a better predictor of whether 1.7×05.3k6661.6k
98Sep 14, '22Singapore: Little to no drug addiction, needles, car jacking, shoplifting, violence, homelessness, litter, or graffiti. Small children ride public transport without parents. Women 1.6×06.9k445413
99Oct 17, '21A former CIA officer reveals that the most attractive incentive you can give to someone to get them to betray their country and become an informant: Give their children admission t1.4×04k1.4k506
100Dec 17, '21They eliminated standardized testing before eliminating legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.1.3×05.9k877150
101Jul 6, '22This parolee was then arrested. No emergency declared and they managed to help ruin this guy's life. But at least they got their moment on camera.1.0×04.6k533123

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