Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

the mind is a neural computer

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.