On several occasions now, I’ve found myself having typed out one particular tweet only to delete it with a big sigh every time. The tweet is not so much a desperate plea for help as much as it is an invitation for the best and brightest out there to help with a problem that I and millions of others out there are experiencing. The tweet?

“Help, I’m oscillating.”

But of course, I understand that such a simple statement will convey little, if any, meaning to most people without proper context. Although practitioners of CBT are right to say that it…

For those who study American political culture, Montana offers a unique, and often enigmatic, subject. While many in the United States consider Montana to be a deep red state, those who live there know that this is far from an accurate description. There has long been an adage in the state that says “send Republicans to Washington and Democrats to Helena,” indicating the mixed party preference of its voters. However, do residents of the state merely have mixed policy positions, or is there a deeper explanation of the phenomena? …

Introduction

It is impossible to concern oneself with politics without concerning oneself with sociality. After all, even the classical thinkers began their exploration of politics with sociological premises in mind, because as Aristotle put it, “man is by nature a social animal… [and] seeing then that the state is made up of households, before speaking of the state we must speak of the management of the household.” Political theorists, philosophers, policymakers, and statesmen alike would be unwise to stray from these premises. In recent years, however, the discipline of sociology has been heavily associated with left-wing progressivism, making it a…

The modern world has left many people — namely young men — feeling alienated from the systems around them, but this phenomenon is anything but new. There is no better exemplar of this feeling than the infamous “Doomer” meme, represented by a young male donning a black sweatshirt and beanie, oftentimes with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, and who possesses a bleak and hopeless outlook on life. The Doomer has no particular political persuasion, although he is often concerned with issues of catastrophic climate change, global stagnation, and for those who do fall on the far-right, demographic replacement. He…

Being from Montana, I am certainly no stranger to cold, harsh winters. However, that would not spare me from the baffled looks of friends and family when I told them I’d be heading to the middle of Siberia for the winter. Needless to say, their confidence in my ability to cope (and my sanity) was not high. Montana may have cold, snowy days with cold, gusting winds, but Siberia is an entirely different beast. The entire region is pretty much one long-running joke about the cold and GULags. …

Determining how, when, and to whom violent group pathologies spread is critical not only to Holocaust and Genocide studies as an academic field, but a vital national security interest as well. Civil institutions can better minimize the risk of mass violence and genocide by looking back upon history and identifying patterns between the violent social, religious, and political movements of the past. Doing so enables state actors to react accordingly when similar patterns unfold in the modern day. Because such phenomena are the result of an extraordinarily complex network of social systems, the academic inquiry necessary to accomplishing this goal…

These days, you would be hard-pressed to find a person who does not feel the stirring, rising tension of the modern day boiling up from deep down in their animal gut. The omnipresent sense of demoralization, destabilization, polarization and impending (or at the very least, inevitable) doom is felt near-universally, yet nonetheless, it is discussed only superficially in the media, academy, and living room alike. The great schisms between people grow in number and depth by the day, even as our industrial and technological powers continue to skyrocket. All too often, we misunderstand the root cause of these divides as…