Extract from an article by Gene Epstein on City Journal : In The Case Against Education , a persuasive indictment of his own industry, Geor...

All basic religious ideas can be expressed in two forms: one personal and the other existential. In the first case the result is obnoxious, ...

The late Professor Hans Eysenck once told me about an experiment in which a population of rats was divided into ‘bright’ and ‘dull’ on some ...

Modern society has lost sight of the only moral principle of any importance, so that the individual citizen is basically unprotected against...

guest post by Christine Fulcher Havelock Ellis makes some interesting points about the personality features of geniuses in his book A Stud...

Francis Galton (1822-1911), from his book Hereditary Genius : I have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often imp...

P.G. Wodehouse was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His most famous fictional creation was Jeeves, the knowing and...

I have noticed over the last forty years that it has become more and more difficult to find anyone willing to do useful work in a polite and...

A young graduate who had read English at Oxford, and with whom I was corresponding, once referred to jokes about ageing. Certainly they are ...

It has been estimated that the proportion of a person’s intelligence which is inherited from his or her parents is upward of 50 percent . ...