Luke Burgis

20 Feb 2024

The French social theorist René Girard, born in 1923, is not quite yet a household name, but his work does […] The post Culture War as Imitation Game

20 Feb 2024

With school-choice initiatives proliferating, students struggling to make up for lost Covid time, and Americans pessimistic about the direction of […] The post The Promise of Entrepreneurial

13 Dec 2023

From career choices to new purchases, use René Girard’s mimetic theory to resist the herd and forge your own path […] The post How to know what you really want

13 Dec 2023

What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem—and what do either have to do with Silicon Valley? NASA can land a […] The post The Three-City Problem of Modern Life

29 Nov 2023

What is Mimetic Desire? Nearly everyone (unconsciously) assumes there’s a straight line between them and the things they want. >> […] The post Mimetic Desire 101

18 Nov 2021

I reached out to Liana Finck during the early, dark days of the pandemic in April 2020. My fiancé, Claire, […] The post The Wonder of Collaboration: Finding a New Spark of Creativity with Liana