Philosophical reflections underpinning empirical research, economics research, public policy formation and societal commentary.
The contemporary debate over pronouns assumes they are either expressions of biological sex or personal identity. Both views miss their traditional role. Pronouns are interpretive judgments made by speakers using incomplete information in a social world. The deeper issue is not gender, but freedom of conscience and the right to interpret.
Twenty-five years after the Founders’ Strike, Atlantis appears to have won. Yet Club Atlantis, once the social and economic heart of the community, is in decline. Through a conversation between an ageing John Galt and a young visitor, Club Atlantis explores a question Atlas Shrugged never asked: what happens when productive people continue creating value but stop investing in the institutions that make value creation possible?
Many of history’s greatest scientific breakthroughs occurred not because new facts were discovered, but because old facts were viewed through a better frame. From Copernicus to Einstein, progress often emerged when apparent complexity was revealed to be a consequence of perspective. This article asks whether economics faces a similar challenge. What if rationality is not the natural frame through which human decision-making should be viewed? And what if the future of economics lies in discovering the mathematical regularities that govern how people actually behave, rather than how theoretical agents ought to behave?
Modern macroeconomics is built upon Homo Economicus: a rational, utility-maximising agent that sits at the centre of theories of growth, equilibrium and welfare. Yet psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology and behavioural economics increasingly suggest that no such cognitive architecture exists. This essay argues that economics has become an intellectual oxbow lake, isolated from the scientific discoveries that should have forced a revision of its foundations.
The greatest threat to justice today is not moral passion, but moral certainty – the belief that the right answers are already known and that questioning them is itself dangerous. When movements treat reasoning as harm, conscience gives way to conformity, and democracy starts to imitate the very failures it claims to oppose.
Freedom of conscience does not protect people from criticism—it protects the legitimacy of moral reasoning itself. This essay argues that when moral certainty replaces judgment, societies drift toward conformity, totalisation, and the erosion of responsibility.
Psychology has shown for decades that men and women express aggression differently — yet DV policy still assumes only male‑mode aggression matters. Female‑mode aggression, including reputational harm and systems abuse, remains invisible, unmeasured, and uninvestigated. “Believe all women” amplifies this blind spot. We need to investigate all allegations.
