A NEW WORLD COMING INTO BEING 

1. Beginning approximately eight weeks ago, I began to substantially reduce the number of LSS Newsletter Essays I sent out each day. Sending Newsletters out has been gratifying: conveying my ideas and theories to a large audience of prominent scholars. 
2. There are approximately 14,500 people on my mailing list, which I've been developing for the last fifteen years. People on this list include some of the most prominent and accomplished and insightful writers in the world. My topic, fundamentally, is the psychology of culture and history. The focus of my research has been the First World War, Hitler, Nazism and Operation Barbarossa. My target market has been historians focusing on these topics. However, there are a substantial number of psychologists, psychoanalysts, sociologists and anthropologists on this mailing list.
3.  Approximately 2000 people "open" (and hopefully read) each issue of the LSS Newsletter, many scholars opening a particular issue 10, 15, even 20 times. This means more people read an article published in the LSS Newsletter in a single day than most journal articles are read in their lifetime. The last "refereed" article I published in a journal was in 2009 (did 20 people read it?). 
4. My central focus is the pursuit of truth--and inviting others to share this pursuit. I dropped by academic position many years ago and don't need  "points." My objective is to convey my ideas to the world--and to transform thought.
5. A partial archive of LSS Newsletters that have been distributed appears here. There is an archive of authors' essays and papers here. I publish work by some of the finest scholars in the world. I'm particularly grateful for the contributions of Brian Crim, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Liah Greenfield, Nicoletta Gullace, Michael McKinley, Adam Henry, Myra Mendible, Michael Roberts, Murray Schwartz, Tuomas Tepora, David Walker, and  David Weddle (among others), and especially to the authors listed directly below, each of whom contributed a substantial number of publications, many of these authored especially for LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. 

ALEXANDER CHIRILA

ROGER GRIFFIN

WALTER SKYA

IVAN STRENSKI

MICHAEL VLAHOS

4. I am especially indebted to SCOTT ATRAN for a substantial number of contributions--that have been distributed through the LSS Newsletter. 
5. Approximately 2500 Newsletters have been published beginning January 16, 2008, continuing through today. I appreciate the support of those of you who have been reading them. Just knowing one is able to convey one's ideas to a substantial number of people is gratifying. My disturbing hypotheses and theories have become part the eternal world. My objective has been to make these hypotheses and theories less disturbing--by virtue of having become part of reality. 
6. I’m shifting direction now to make my ideas available to a general public. I'm creating a series of presentations and lectures that will be conveyed through YouTube, Podcasts and radio broadcasts. I've done these presentations and broadcasts sporadically through the years. But my primary focus has been writing and distributing the Newsletter.
7. In a fundamental way, I didn't want to my ideas to become public--until scholars had begun to understand and support my efforts and perhaps even to support my theories. The academic world now seems to be in a bit of a mess: rules on what can be said and what is not allowed to be said; rules on what can be discussed and what not discussed. My early days were spent at a wonderful Liberal Arts college, Wesleyan University, sustained by the ideal of a "community of scholars." This remains an ideal that cannot be shattered. 
8. Recently, in preparation for my YouTube videos, podcasts and radio broadcasts--I've been meeting with selected individuals on ZOOM sessions. These meetings have been a fantastic way to interact and share ideas in real time. I'm doing more of these now.
9. With the Internet, a new world is being born. Ideas are presented directly to an audience. There no longer needs to be vast space between the creation of an idea and its presentation, e. g., writing a paper for a journal then waiting one year before it is finally published and read (by a few people). This does not mean embracing the ideology of TWITTER: instant gratification without serious scholarship--all for the sake of receive a "like" or a few "thumbs up." What is in the process of coming into being is a closer relationship between the creation of ideas, the presentation of these ideas, and their reception. A new world is coming into being.