Rob Henderson

2 days ago | robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson

The luxury belief class has just done the equivalent of plucking a random grad student from an Ivy League Hamas encampment and nominating them for mayor. Take the New York City subway early in the morning from the outer boroughs and you’ll find it packed with cleaners, nannies, restaurant staff, hotel workers and construction workers coming off the night shift. Some are heading home. Some are just starting their day. It’s “the help” arriving and departing.

6 days ago | open.substack.com | Rob Henderson

In U.S. high schools, you get 155 hours of Hitler, 3 minutes on Stalin, and zero on Pol Pot. Fifty years ago Pol Pot’s forces entered the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. This was perhaps the most insanely murderous regime in human history. And this occurred to the cheers and satisfaction of Western leftist intellectuals. The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh lost his entire family to the communist takeover and subsequent genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s.

6 days ago | robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson

In U.S. high schools, you get 155 hours of Hitler, 3 minutes on Stalin, and zero on Pol Pot. Fifty years ago Pol Pot’s forces entered the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. This was perhaps the most insanely murderous regime in human history. And this occurred to the cheers and satisfaction of Western leftist intellectuals. The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh lost his entire family to the communist takeover and subsequent genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s.

1 week ago | robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson

Parental selection in human evolution. I’ve written about this hereFor centuries, people created myths that sick or disabled babies were actually fairy imposters—“changelings”—swapped in to drain family resources. These infants were sometimes left in the woods overnight. If they died, it meant the fairies didn’t take them back. If they lived, people believed the real child had returned. From an evolutionary perspective, this was a brutal survival test disguised as mythology.

2 weeks ago | robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson |Will Storr

Why so many men struggle with perfectionism, identity, and failure—and how those pressures can lead to quiet despair.