Just as human nature is the same everywhere, so it is recognizably the same as it was in the past. - Matt Ridley

Most of the so-called robber barons got rich by cutting the price of goods, not raising them.

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Wherever you look in the historical record, the elites favored sons more than other classes….Lower down the social scale, daughters are preferred even today.