In his recent book, Joseph Henrich argues Western culture exists because the Catholic Church got obsessed with incest. Here’s my in-depth review.

Human intuition for probability may not be as ‘biased’ as behavioral economists think.

I explore the power struggle behind ‘free speech’.

Here’s the manuscript for a new piece in The Mint Magazine about the language of economics.

Some advice about how to avoid getting hoodwinked by mainstream economics.

IQ tests have always bothered me. They claim to measure ‘general intelligence’. I think this is bullshit.

People tend to become more individualistic at the same time that hierarchy grows. What explains this paradox?

What if the free market has never been about freedom?

Anthropologist Jason Hickel thinks we measure inequality incorrectly. He argues we should measure absolute inequality rather than relative inequality. I think this is a mistake.

The less free market we have, the more we use the phrase ‘free market’. George Orwell would be proud.