The Philosophical Muser

I stumbled on an article today that claims poorer couples are more likely to divorce than richer ones. The writer suggested a few reason...

A friend asked me: are trade unions an essential part of a successful economy, or a hindrance to progress? Here was my response to him...

Why do projects nearly always take longer than scheduled? You know the score - you've seen it many times before: some large firm win...

In the penultimate chapter of his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , Steven Pinker attempts to bring toget...

Oh heck, where did it start to go wrong again? As I'm sure you can remember, we used to be pretty repressive when it came to personal...

With the recent introduction of the living wage the red socialist in blue conservative clothing chancellor George Osborne made it clear ...

The people that run our country worry me, but the people that want to run our country (Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens) worry me far mor...

In my view, the author and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil is one of the most interesting people around. Kurzweil is a bold futurist who ...

I noticed some Liverpool fans in a sports forum eagerly anticipating next season under new manager Jurgen Klopp. They were hopeful that ...

Science fiction is largely about ideas, which means good science fiction is about good ideas. For this reason there aren't many reall...

The above image is a meme doing the rounds. Personally, the most obvious response I have is that for evolutionary reasons that served us...

Considering that in the shape of the shadow Labour cabinet they have only an economic laughing stock as opposition at the moment, it...

Some of you may be interested in my response to an IEA writer’s peculiar argument for why Prisons do not act as a deterrent to crime . S...

There was a claim in the UK's Independent newspaper paper recently that Cannabis legalisation in UK would raise £1bn a year in taxes ...