The following extract is from: Peter Saunders, Social Mobility Myths , Civitas 2010, pp.56-58. (The full publication is available for downlo...

Extract from a 2013 article by Ed West on the Spectator ’s website: I’m starting to get the impression that the Guardian isn’t very keen o...

England in 878 AD Æthelflæd, the daughter of King Alfred, was a significant figure in early British history. From the time of her husband...

This is a new, hardback edition of Charles McCreery’s book, The Abolition of Genius . The book contains an analysis of the relationship be...

If ability is at least partly inherited, then it is likely that social classes will arise. If social class is partly explained by genes, the...

From Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man : The difference between strict hereditarians and their opponents is not, as some caricature...

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The following extract* from John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography is cited in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate . ...

In the standard Gospels it is often necessary to make rather extreme substitutions for anything that makes sense to emerge. None of the Gosp...

Further to the previous post , there is another quotation from Murray Rothbard’s history of compulsory education* which makes it very clear ...

Frederick William I (1688 - 1740) Compulsory education involves the transfer of the power to make decisions about a child’s education fr...