LOOK BENEATH THE OBVIOUS
RICK HOPPE
I write, analyze, and talk with interesting people about complicated things, looking for what’s underneath the easy answer.
Analysis & Nonfiction
Revolution, legitimacy, governance, intelligence, and societal change.
Fiction and Storytelling
Historical fiction and stories about memory, consequence, faith, and redemption.
Essays and Commentary
Current analysis and longer observations on politics, society, history, and the forces shaping our world.
Featured Work
Eight Stages
A Primer on Modern Revolution
Revolutions don’t begin when the shooting starts
A practical framework for understanding how revolutionary movements emerge, develop, and end.
CURRENT ANALYSIS
Analysis of events, institutions, and complex systems, focused on what is changing, why it matters, and what may come next.
Read Fault Lines
LOOK BENEATH THE OBVIOUS
Conversations that go beyond the easy answer
Beneath the Obvious brings together people with experience, expertise, and different ways of seeing the world. The object isn’t to win an argument. It’s to understand what’s really there.
Meet Rick
Rick Hoppe has spent a lifetime trying to understand why people, institutions, and societies do what they do. His work ranges from political analysis and nonfiction to fiction, essays, and conversations with people who have something worth saying.
