Essays
ZAKIR NAIK RUINED PIETY FOR PIOUS PEOPLE
### Or, How to Enjoy Your Religion Without Enjoying It *Clout Economics | Department of Unconscious Investments* **The tragedy of modern piety is not that people have stopped believing in God. It is that they have become terribly interested in proving that they believe correctly.** There is something extraordinary about a religious…
Clout Economics: An Introduction in Seven Parts
How power becomes virtue, virtue becomes influence, and influence becomes power: from caste and inheritance to populism and the economy of the good citizen. About 8 minutes.
ENDGAME ENDOGAMY
A field guide to Darwinism, endogamy, and the peculiar business of social evolution. About 7 minutes.
THE PROTEST INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
How India's online populists turned dissent into clout, and left a generation with the bill. An exposé on the political economy of resistance. About 25 minutes.
CIVILISATION AS COLLATERAL
Hindutva, Orientalism, and the global economy of Indian prestige. A political economy of civilisational power.
Caste Survives Conversion: Ashraf Clout, Secular Silence and the Pasmanda Challenge
A polemic on caste among Indian Muslims. Using Gopal Guru, Ambedkar and the pasmanda movement, it argues that the monolithic “Muslim community” is a clout asset, and that ashraf elites, secular liberals, the state and Hindutva outreach all profit from keeping caste off the agenda. About 15 minutes.