Good samaritans alone cannot save minority groups from genocide. Only independence can.

Every dictatorship is repressive in its own way, and the foremost factor that dictates what that way will look like is demography.

In-groups don’t share power with out-groups unless and until they stop thinking of them as out-groups at all.

The fate of the Tigrayans in Ethiopia shows why minority regimes dare not surrender power.

Ethnic hatred on social media says more about us than about social media.

Other countries have faced political moments similar to the one the United States faces today. Their subsequent experiences offer a guide to what is likely to happen next here.

If Iran and the United States end up in open conflict, it will be, to borrow from Bismarck, over some damn foolish thing in Mesopotamia.

We belong to groups. The behavior of those groups is largely dictated not by ideology but by demography. To understand how and why, one needs the identity matrix.

A field guide to the things groups of humans do to other groups of humans.

We need to redefine what we mean by "ethnic cleansing" far beyond our conventional understanding of the term, so that it includes all the ways states constantly control their demography.

The left is assuming that people who lose their insurance will switch and vote Democrat because the loss of healthcare is a traumatic experience that can literally mean bankruptcy or death. But what if that's not the reason people vote anymore?

Regimes gain legitimacy by their existence and their ability to govern and hold territory, regardless of how reprehensibly they do it. It doesn't matter whether Washington considers Pyongyang's government legitimate. It’s there.