Read. Listen. Question everything.

An essay on capital depreciation, economic models, and their implications for mortgages, pensions and climate change.

An essay on oil, energy surplus and the material foundations of progress, rights and democracy.

An essay on the cost of raising children, falling birth rates and the gap between desired and possible family size.

An essay on knowledge, intermediaries and power, from scribes and priests to experts and algorithms.

An essay on the decline of the middle class and why working harder no longer guarantees a better standard of living.

An essay on housing, generational differences and the usual explanations for declining living standards.

An essay on the limits of the system, resource allocation and problems that persist across political ideologies.