Perhaps the internet has returned us to a world a bit like the Stone Age in which there is no place for a fraudster to hide.
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less,’ he
One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often – on average about ninety...
Obama himself may have turned out to be something of a dud, but the cult of presidential personality that has dominated American politics for decades now still persists.
Nobody ever saw a dog make fair and deliberate exchange of a bone with another dog.
Nancy Wexler fears that science is now in the position of Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes.
Modern philosophers who aspire to rise above the sordid economic reality of the world would do well to recall that this trade made possible the cross-fertilisation of ideas that led to great discoveri...
Life adapted to the laws of physics, not vice versa.
Lectures, says Minerva’s Stephen Kosslyn, are ‘a great way to teach, but a terrible way to learn’.
It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem-solving machine and it solves problems by changing its ways. It
It is genes that allow the human mind to learn, to remember, to imitate, to imprint, to absorb culture, and to express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints. Nor are they just the carr...
It is common to find that two traders both think their counterparts are idiotically overpaying: that is the beauty of Ricardo’s magic trick.
I forecast that the twenty-first century will show a continuing expansion of catallaxy – Hayek’s word for spontaneous order created by exchange and specialisation.
Good institutions cannot usually be imposed from above: that way they are oxymorons.
Giving money to poor people is not a sustainable solution to poverty. So how do you help poor people? Do you instruct, plan and order their lives with expertise and lots of government, or do you get t...
Further evidence for the man-made nature of gods comes from their evolutionary history. It is a little-known fact, but gods evolve.
For more than two hundred years, on the topic of human population, a disturbingly vicious thread has run through Western history, basing itself on biology and justifying cruelty on an almost unimagina...
Female monkeys, unaware that they are slaves to cultural stereotypes, like things with faces. Male monkeys, unaware that they are doing the bidding of human sexists, like things with moving parts.
Fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. This fact – an inconvenient truth if there ever was one – is obscu...
Fascism and communism were and are religions of the state.