So what do we do? Not what should governments do, not what should the institutions do, not what should some new leader do. What do we do, you and me, the ordinary decent majority who never asked for any of this and don't know how to fix it. Eve...

The same message keeps coming back. Different language, different century, different continent. Zoroaster in Persia. Akhenaten in Egypt. Buddha in India. Socrates in Greece. Jesus in Judea. Rumi in Konya. Tolstoy in Russia. Gandhi in India. Mar...

Where did it come from? And how did it get from one civilisation to another? The answer leads to a religion almost nobody in the West has heard of, a buried library in the Egyptian desert, and a question that hides in plain sight in the Bible i...

This one's about to get uncomfortable. In every other chapter of this book we've been innocent bystanders, looking at institutions doing things that were out of our hands. Not this one. This is the chapter where I have to admit I'm part of the ...

I can't talk about every country, there's too much to say. But I have to talk about China. The good and the bad. Britain forced opium on it at gunpoint. Japan committed unspeakable atrocities in Nanking. Then it lifted 800 million people out of...