Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January’s MasterCard bill. P.J. O’ROURKE
Humanity is, of course, morally free to make and remake itself infinitely, but we do not do so.
Education is not a skyhook from which to hang economic policy; it is an emergent phenomenon.
As I write this, it is nine o’clock in the morning. In the two hours since I got out of bed I have showered in water heated by North Sea gas, shaved using an American razor running on electricity made...
As Edward Glaeser put it, ‘Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.
And the good news is that there is no inevitable end to this process. The more people are drawn into the global division of labour, the more people can specialise and exchange, the wealthier we will a...
Most species do not change their habits during their few million years on earth or alter their lifestyle much in different parts of their range.
Every class is unfit to govern.’ The problem is not the abuse of power, echoed the motivational speaker Michael Cloud more recently, but the power to abuse. The