history

  The Philanthropic Predator: How to Milk the State by Whipping the Pack Human beings are intensely social primates who have mastered the ar...

  The £1 Ice Cream: A Sophisticated Ransom for the Soul The story of James Shemmeld, the British paramedic turned ice cream man, is being so...

  The Freedom to Hunt Alone: The Tax of the Tribal Shifting In the primordial history of our species, the greatest risk was leaving the safe...

  The Peasant’s Sweat and the Lord’s Leisure: A Darwinian Guide to Tax In the deep history of our species, status was determined by the surp...

  The Landlord’s Enclosure: Taxing the Territorial Primate In the grand sweep of human history, the desire to own land is perhaps the most d...

  The Great British Bypass: When the Herd Outruns the State The British National Health Service was once the ultimate expression of the secu...

  The Oracle’s Cynical Pre-Nuptial: The Darwinism of Low Expectations Warren Buffett, the man who turned "patience" into a multi-b...

  The Naked Truth: Why the "Netflix of Adult Content" Stripped Out Human history is a graveyard of pioneers who forgot that in the...

  The Counterfeiters of Negative Equity In the annals of criminal history, we often read about the "Mastermind"—the shadowy figure...

  Realigning Incentives: A Proactive Approach to the UK's Energy Crisis The UK's housing and energy crisis, rooted in its inefficien...