WHERE I AM AND WHERE I'M GOING 

1.  Beginning approximately eight weeks ago, I began to substantially reduce the number of LSS Newsletter Essays I sent out each day. Sending the Newsletters out has been extremely gratifying: conveying my ideas or 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 during the past thirty years 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 and psychoanalysts on the my mailing list. I've been trying to lure them into the public domain: to apply what they know of cultural issues, away from the clinic. This project is now essential--more urgent than ever.
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 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?). I understand that academics get "points" for each piece  they publish. In this case, the issue of being "read" may not be a major concern.
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 to "points." My objective is to convey my ideas to the world--and to have an impact upon transforming thought.
5. A partial archive of LSS Newsletters that have been distributed appears here. These Newsletters include essays and papers written by myself, and information on LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS.  In addition, I have published papers, articles, essays and lectures by specially selected authors. There is an archive of authors' essays and papers here. I published work by some of the finest scholars in the world. I'm particularly grateful for 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 that I have been able to convey my 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. Now I’m shifting direction 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 (I’m creating an archive of these that I will soon  publish and distribute). 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 these ideas and support my efforts. I've noticed one important thinker got spit on a number of times at a University because people disagreed with his ideas. Another one of my colleagues told me that he was hesitant to present "facts" to his students--if these facts hurt the feelings of his students or contradicted what they thought they already knew. Imagine: an academic world in which scholars are afraid to present face! What a mess! 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. Sticks and stones may break one's bones, but names will never break you.
8. Recently, in preparation for my YouTube videos, podcasts and radio broadcasts--I've met one on one with selected individuals to do ZOOM sessions. These sessions have turned out to be a fantastic way of communicating: interacting and sharing ideas in real time. I'm in the process of doing more of these now.
9. A new world is being born. Ideas are being presented directly to an audience. There no longer needs to be vast space between the creation of ideas and their presentation, e. g., writing a paper for a journal and then waiting one year before (a few) people read it. This does not mean embracing the ideology of TWITTER: instant gratification without serious scholarship for the sake of a few "thumbs up." What is in the process of coming into being  is a closer relationship between the presenting or uttering ideas and the reception to these ideas.