mass formation

Commentary For four years, we’ve carried around a presumption that when lockdowns came, most people went along out of fear of the virus. Or maybe people were just intimidated by ...

Commentary Dear friends, A few weeks ago I was invited to give a speech at the fourth International Crisis ...

Commentary In my opinion, one of the more important speeches provided at the recent Fourth International COVID/Crisis Summit, ...

Commentary Totalitarians describe a world dominated by positive feedback loops, where the slightest perturbation to a system expands ...

Commentary On Jan. 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” in the course ...

Commentary To Mattias Desmet, the pandemic that crashed into 2020 was more of a state of mind than ...

“People in the grip of this corona narrative couldn’t see that these measures would ruin their lives, the ...

Professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University Mattias Desmet is the world’s leading expert in the phenomenon known ...

Join us for our ATL Sunday Watch Party! During the Watch Party this Sunday at 7:30pm ET, everyone ...

Speaking out to articulate sincere and honest belief is the best way to break the social phenomenon known ...

Commentary At the end of February 2020, the global village began to shake on its foundations. The world was ...

The world is teetering on the edge of disaster, as mass formation and the rise of totalitarianism have ...

In an Epoch Health podcast, Dr. Ann Corson spoke with Prof. Dr. Mattias Desmet, the world’s leading expert ...

“How many people would you be willing to kill in order to save one from COVID?” asks Gigi ...

“If we make rationality the basis of everything,” Mattias Desmet says, “we arrive in a completely irrational society.” ...

When many people feel disconnected from their social environment they become prone to fanatical belief in an unreasonable ...

Why did large swaths of society suddenly buy into masking toddlers or restricting people from visiting their loved ...

Commentary My friend and colleague Dr. Mary Talley Bowden recently posed this important question, which has puzzled many ...

Pivotal randomized control trials (RCTs) underpinning approval of Covid-19 vaccines did not set out to, and did not, ...

“The mass is formed around the idea that the vaccines are magically going to be able to relieve ...