We are a socialist think tank focused on analyzing deep structural issues in late capitalist consumer society from the vantage point of British Columbia, situated on the fault line between the US and Chinese imperial spheres.
It is the goal of Los Altos to intervene in public discourse in ways that alter its long-term trajectory away from modes of thought that reinforce the capitalist order. In conducting this project, Los Altos seeks to facilitate lay, non-academic participation is substantive intellectual debates. Our principles and basis of unity can be found here.
We recently put together a four-hour How to Do Your Own Research course, which you can download free here. In other recent news, our president’s collected essays are now available as a four-volume set.
We currently run three reading groups/book clubs and open to all members for a $25 annual fee. For an additional fee, we also teach four-day intensive courses at resort destinations from time to time; and offer online courses via Zoom. While we charge tuition for these programs but discounts are available for students and un-/underemployed attendees and additional travel subsidies are available through the Michael Webster fellowship.
Our president and three research fellows are currently at work on a major research project concerning the etiology of the Global North’s Identitarian turn that will also debunk the “cultural Marxism” theory propounded by mathematician James Lindsay.
