Archive - Maarten Boudry’s Substack

If Israel is an apartheid state, it’s the strangest one on Earth.

What I saw during my visit to Israel destroyed this absurd lie.

Published on Future of Jewish • Jul 10

Green Colonialism

Or How Progressives Keep Africa Poor

Jul 7 •

June 2025

The future used to be better

How contemporary art reflects our waning belief in progress.

Published on The Elysian • Jun 26

Why the West Turned on Itself

Maarten Boudry joins Chelsea Follett to examine the cultural and ideological roots of Western anti-Western sentiment.

Published on Doomslayer • Jun 22

The Enlightenment’s Gravediggers

When Westerners hate the West.

Jun 21 •

When Progressives Gave Up on Progress

Or why we need a new progress movement

Jun 11 •

May 2025

A Convenient Scapegoat

How Israel Absorbs the Sins of the West

May 18 •

The Four Faces of Gloom: How the West Gave Up on Progress

(Or: Richer, Safer, Sadder)

May 11 •

April 2025

How progressives betrayed a struggling liberal democracy

Historian and philosopher Fania Oz-Salzberger on the political turmoil in Israel

Apr 17 •

March 2025

The End of the World, Redux

Degrowth would be worse for humanity than any climate catastrophe it purports to prevent.

Mar 21 •

February 2025

The Selfish Machine

Will Humanity Be Subjugated by Superintelligent AIs?

Feb 27 •

December 2024

A Deadly Contagion

An evolutionary theory of witch-hunting (and other mind viruses?)

Dec 25, 2024 •

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