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"The good mechanic knows how to take a car apart," says Neil Simon. "I love to take the human mind apart and see how it works"... more


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It's a trillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, and you are in it up to your eyes. The U.S. government issues more and more debt to pay off previous debt. One day, we'll wake up... more

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Free trade and a never-ending exchange of ideas offers us an inexhaustible river of invention and discovery. Matt Ridley on wealth and growth... more

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Intelligence, self-possession, and a sense of maturity. If this be wisdom, will we learn more about it from literature and history, or from neuroscience?... more

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A perception of unfairness is a major driver of anger as a human emotion. It is not too far, David Barash suggests, to speak of our having a fairness instinct... more

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You didn't intend to plagiarise. In fact, your unconscious did it. Sure. And try telling the cop your unconscious was speeding... more

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How the British see themselves and the world is not easy to grasp. A good place to begin is to consider what the Second World War did to Britain... more

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Events of 1989 are often depicted as a failure of socialism. Though this powerful view has served to discredit alternatives to capitalism, it remains in doubt... more

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The human brain, for all its power, is quite suspicious of difficulty. Effective marketers, politicians, and sales people all know to keep it simple... more

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