Rob Henderson

Today is the big day! My debut book, "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class," is now available in paperback. The Audiobook is narrated by yours truly. US: simonandschuster.com/books/Troubled… UK: swiftpress.com/book/troubled/#

"It’s not difficult to say something interesting. It’s not difficult to say something true. The real challenge is saying something both interesting and true. Unfortunately, the overlap in the Venn diagram of those two categories is slim." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

"Many objections to research on sex differences stem from a sentimental belief that nature ought to support progressive political ideals." -@robkhenderson city-journal.org/article/men-wo…

"the women who sympathized with Friedan's critique...wanted well-compensated and socially respectable professional jobs...they ultimately achieved that goal by offloading unwanted domestic labor onto other women—lower-income women, typically immigrants" press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Good point here on roundabouts: spectator.co.uk/article/the-ro… h/t @rorysutherland

"A key obstacle faced by frustrated elites...Hard times for most people are usually pretty good times for elites...Conversely, hard times for elites are usually relatively good times for everyone else." press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

He broke the news that @ZohranKMamdani lied about being Black in his very failed attempt to get into Columbia, and now @cremieuxrecueil joins the show 2 discuss how he got @nytimes (!) to cover it--and how colleges lie about race Episode drops in an hour youtu.be/lGD4Yd7NgU4

Zohran Mamdani’s rise is fueled by downwardly mobile urban millennials who feel failed by the system and want to tear it down. But their politics may be too radical to win over the growing, suburban middle class Democrats need in other parts of the country.

"people misunderstand the intended meaning of what others say..those who spoke with strangers communicated more clearly than with close associates, believing—incorrectly—the latter would understand ambiguous phrases by virtue of their intimate affiliation" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"people increasingly signal their membership within the progressive elite with attitudes that they themselves do not live by – in other words, they don't walk their talk. The costs of this status game are borne by others." nzz.ch/english/the-lu…

"the middle class have become so good at appropriating the styles of the rich that the rich have started to choose ugly things that no one would want to copy...choosing ugly things generates a cost that discourages outsiders from poaching the signal" repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewconten…

"Especially in high-income countries, the birth rate has very quickly plummeted in a sustained way...Older people, those age 65 or above, now outnumber children in 11 states. That has risen sharply from just three states five years ago." npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-…