Thinking Out Aloud

Property law rests on conventions that evolved before it and that can operate without it, or even against it. Waiting for the opening of a s...

Opinions that mark one off as one of the smart-and-the-good can have a disastrous effect on policy and organisations. Source In her review ...

And bad things come from pretending it was. Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. Wikimedia commons. A friend forwarded me this ema...

We are the cultural species par excellence, and so the species that creates its own niches. Beaver dam, Hesse, Germany. The ecologist Paul C...

There have been four major out-of expansions by Homo sapiens . Source: Jared Diamond, Peter Bellwood, Farmers and Their Languages: The First...

Intent is not the only thing to judge policies or theories on. Source: https://www.iied.org/climate-activism-time-covid-19 Within the expand...

Folk are intersex because of how their biology is within complex and varied manifestations of two sexes . Participants at the third Internat...