Political philosophy and ideology

Capitalism runs on creative destruction, and its success may lead it to socialism.

Why mass movements of every kind draw the same frustrated people and use one method.

Economic freedom as a condition of political freedom, applied to policy questions.

The case for free markets and limited government, policy area by policy area.

Why large state plans fail when they override local, practical knowledge.

A 20-year test of 28,000 expert forecasts: foxes with many models beat hedgehogs.

Preference falsification: why people hide their views and how that hides change.

Why the platform mattered politically, and what that cost it.

Elite theory: who actually rules, and why stated aims mislead

1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state

Why incumbent power in states, firms and armies now erodes faster

Argument that rich societies have stagnated into repetition and sterility

Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics

Why managers and technocrats would replace capitalists as society's ruling class.

An inquiry into the nature of freedom and the uses of power.

A reading of Xenophon's Hiero, where a tyrant and a poet weigh the uses of tyranny.

Ways to end humanity's conflicts with nature, with other people and within the self.

The case for anarcho-capitalism, a society run on markets without a state.

How media in democracies serve state and corporate power while claiming independence.

How communities manage shared resources without either the state or the market.

An enquiry into nationalism since 1780: its programme, its myths and its reality.

Why liberal democracy may be the end state of political change, and how people react.

Alternating fiction and essay, a rewrite of Nineteen Eighty-Four with a new ending.

Selections on community and society

Voters hold systematic biases about economics, so democracies choose bad policies.

How Rome's republican institutions broke down and the Republic fell into tyranny.

How group identities drive politics at home and abroad, and how elites missed it.

Published in the UK as In Defence of Open Society.

Why liberty is hard to win and keep, and how it can survive new threats.

A manifesto for redesigning politics, government and the economy around human scale.

What justice is, answered by building an ideal city in dialogue.