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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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3 weeks ago | 
robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson
Consuming content from bitter people will subtly shape your own mindset and worldview, even if what they say is factually correct (though often it is not, because bitterness clouds people’s ability to accurately interpret reality)New evidence that men have physically changed more than women over the past century.
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3 weeks ago | 
robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson's NewsletterYes, Arguments Stand Or Fall Based On Their Merits But The Messenger Still Matters And If You Allow Resentful People Into Your Head, You’ll Be Fooled Into Carrying Their Rage As Your Own
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1 month ago | 
robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson
Just weeks after its release, “Adolescence” became the one of the most-watched TV series in Netflix’s history. The series tells the story of Jamie, a 13-year-old boy from a stable, two-parent household who becomes immersed in incel (involuntary celibate) ideology online and eventually stabs a female classmate to death. It has been praised widely for its emotional depth, gripping storytelling, and realistic portrayal of teen violence.
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1 month ago | 
robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson
Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more. Over 72,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“Evolutionary psychology from a man whose rose from literally being abandoned in a crackhouse to becoming a Ivy League soldier. ”“My friend Rob has one of the most interesting newsletters related to "human nature," broadly construed, that you can find out there.
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1 month ago | 
robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson
Yesterday I spoke with a group of advisors from the Department of Health and Human Services. They asked for my perspective on how to reduce poverty in America drawn from my writing, research, and personal experience. After the call, I sent them the one-pager below. It is a brief summary of the main ideas I emphasized in our conversation. These ideas aren’t exhaustive. But they’re a start. And I was encouraged that a group of federal policymakers wanted to hear them.
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1 month ago | 
robkhenderson.com | Rob Henderson
In this conversation, Richard Hanania and I break down a viral TikTok where an attractive woman hits on random guys on a college campus—and what their reactions reveal about male confidence, skepticism, and social conditioning. I recommend watching the video so you can follow along as we analyze the interactions frame by frame. Some highlights:We compare how men and women experience “approach” dynamics—and why even attractive women get treated with suspicion when they make the first move.