Thinking Out Aloud

The destructive non-electoral politics of institutional capture. Source: Economic Policy Institute . Have done two new posts on Substack. On...

Source: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash. Blogging has been very light here. Mainly because I have been doing a lot of researching and writing for ...

Ever since their inception, states have dominated the extraction of surplus. Tomb of Menna , Wikipedia commons. Two concepts that, in their ...

The problem with using a distorting social lens. Source: https://theweek.com/politics/1002300/progressives-are-aggressors-in-the-culture-war...

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...