Courses for
thinking clearly.
Courses
Human Thought
Think Clearly
Eight self-contained readings for confronting mortality, desire, duty, myth, and the question of what a human being is.
Economics
Cheap Intelligence, Scarce Complements
A connected investigation into whether cheap intelligence can make India richer, more dependent, or both.
Human Thought · Society
The Attention Economy, Rebuilt
A self-paced course for understanding attention as a cognitive capacity, an economic resource, and a political question.
Economics · Society
The Political Economy of Abundance
A self-paced course for understanding what happens when a powerful input becomes cheap—but the world around it does not.
Politics · Society
Power, Institutions, and State Capacity
A comparative course on why institutions work, fail, command obedience, and sometimes earn the right to rule.
Knowledge · Decisions
Evidence, Uncertainty, and Belief
A practical course in judging claims, studies, models, experts, and decisions when the evidence remains incomplete.
Energy · Society
Energy, Matter, and Civilization
A systems course on the physical flows that sustain modern life, the services they provide, and the burdens they create.
Work · Human Thought
Work, Craft, and the Good Life
A course on livelihood, skill, power, time, technology, and the place work should occupy in a human life.