Thinking Out Aloud

I recently re-read Marcel Mauss ’s classic 1925 essay, The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies , in which Mauss (a ...

Anarcho-capitalists claim that the state is the most dangerous social predator. That is true. So, their solution is to abolish the state. ...

Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue , discussed how centre-right parties have not found a langu...

African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be poor than Euro-Americans. African-American males are more than twice as likely  to be sh...

The current pandemic has somewhat elevated Taiwan's standing on the world stage, as it was both early in warning of the dangers of wha...

I was going to forbear from posting on the Covid-19 pandemic , but this post by Arnold Kling prompted some more general observations about ...

Pastoralist peoples exploding out of the their lands and conquering farming peoples is a recurring feature of human history. Likely exp...