history

  The Hydraulic Scales of Survival: When the State Chooses Between a Scalpel and a Monster Human beings are territorial primates who, when b...

  The Day the State Monetized the Sun Human beings are territorial, rent-seeking primates ruled by dominant alphas who possess an insatiable...

  The Profitable Martyr: Navigating the Capitalist Buffet of Identity Human beings are, above all, status-maximizing parasites with a magnif...

  The Summer Illusion: The Industrial Conquest of the Royal Berry Human beings are visually stimulated foragers trapped in a matrix of seaso...

  The Liquid Mask of Sobriety: How the Elite Swapped Rum for Religion Human beings are pathologically driven to alter their consciousness wh...

  The State-Sponsored Diet: When Tyranny Tastes Like Carrots Human beings are naturally lazy, opportunistic foragers who will happily gorge ...

  The Ghost Doctors of Whitehall: A Mathematical Seance Human beings have an extraordinary capacity for symbolic thinking. It’s what allowed...

  The Corridor of Shadows: A Masterclass in Bureaucratic Prestidigitation Human beings are the only primates capable of convincing themselve...

  The NHS Magic Trick: How to Cure 350,000 People with a Pencil Human beings are, at their evolutionary core, competitive bookkeepers. Long ...

  The Welfare Jackpot: A Mathematical Paradox of Pity In the theater of modern survival, the "struggle for existence" has traded t...