One recurring theme in political satire is the fear that humans gravitate to oversimplified explanations for complex problems — a supposed curse of dumbing down that leads us to erect idiocracies led ...

I take Jerome Powell at his word when he says that he and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve are determined to get inflation back to its 2% target. And I’m sure they understand how important it is ...

Occam’s Razor is one of those ideas that sounds obvious until you realise how rarely people follow it. Put simply, it argues ...