In no other age can so many people have harboured such intense ambitions to become writers. The longing one day to turn out a book probably a novel or, less likely, an autobiography lies close to the center of Continue Reading
How Science Could Finally And Properly Replace Religion
According to a standard heroic secular account, at the start of the modern age and in just a few short decades, science was able to defeat religion through rigour and brilliance and thereby forever liberated humankind from ignorance and Continue Reading
The Porn Addiction
It could seem like a strange topic to be discussing. It doesn’t come up much in polite company. Yet we know that as many as 35 per cent of US and UK males under 50 will be struggling with Continue Reading
Arguments We have From Guilt Feeling
We’ve been wasting all day on the internet. One diversionary click turned into a thousand. It started with a news site and ended up in some very silly or very vile (or both) places. We’ve seen stuff we should Continue Reading
How Faulty Our Economic Indicators Actually Are
The Dow, which is the world’s most prestigious financial index, takes a daily temperature reading of the US, assigning it an astonishingly precise number. Behind this lies an almost unimaginable complexity of human behaviour: deals were made and broken Continue Reading
