Yafeth Richards is a clinical psychologist whose work explores the architecture of human belief — how minds construct, defend, and abandon worldviews. His writing ranges across cognitive psychology, linguistics, New Atheism, international relations, and social engineering.

Yafeth studies worldviews from the inside out. His own journey took him from devout Islam to militant atheism, through a year of indifferent existentialism, into several years as an active member of a Marxist-Leninist faction — before a falling-out with his former comrades led him to anarchism. He now identifies as a transhumanist.

For Yafeth, understanding a belief system has never been a matter of reading about it from a distance, though he has done plenty of that too. It means immersing himself in the movement itself — its people, its rituals, its internal culture — to see not how a worldview is advertised, but how it is actually lived. He is less interested in the mission statement than in the gap between it and daily practice.

Fourteen years of deliberate movement between ideologies and philosophies became the foundation for Homo Hypocritus, in which Yafeth arrives at a provocative conclusion: true believers don’t exist, and everyone is a hypocrite.