David Matthews
David Matthews is the author of Our Captured Minds.
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Articles By This Author
Liberalism or authoritarianism?
- By David Matthews
- . Jan 24, 2026
Although today in the West we take democratic government for granted, and as the natural way for humanity to organise itself politically, actual history indicates
Eyeless in Gaza
- By David Matthews
- . Aug 10, 2025
The reason that the current war in Gaza is so barbaric by modern standards, and the reason that it is leaving the modern world morally
Why liberal democracy is reverting back to authoritarianism
- By David Matthews
- . Jul 13, 2025
Democracy and individual freedom are not natural elements of human government. Authoritarianism, the rule of society by a minority possessing moral or physical authority over
How ideologies are used to capture our minds
- By David Matthews
- . May 3, 2025
An ideology, religious or political, is a doctrine giving expression to a set of coherent ideas and beliefs that claims both to represent the objective
Why the problem of racism is never resolved
- By David Matthews
- . Feb 15, 2025
Despite the highly negative moral perception of racism in the West, the possibility exists that everybody on earth is in fact naturally racist, and that
The masters of mankind
- By David Matthews
- . Jan 25, 2025
The political freedom and the high material standard of living enjoyed today in the West are very much taken for granted, but are in fact
The role of fiat currency in the rise of the state
- By David Matthews
- . Nov 2, 2024
Throughout recorded history, humans have used a commodity as their money. From approximately 500 BC in the West, the chosen commodities were gold, silver, and
It’s not capitalism failing, but liberal democracy
- By David Matthews
- . Oct 5, 2024
Today’s popular call for capitalism to be replaced with another economic system is driven by a common misunderstanding of what capitalism essentially is. Long confusingly
The political exploitation of empathy and altruism
- By David Matthews
- . Feb 4, 2024
Empathy and altruism are two qualities that humans believe that our species possesses to a significant degree. While both qualities certainly play a vital role
How the Holocaust prevents a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem
- By David Matthews
- . Oct 23, 2023
The most significant fact arising from the Holocaust is that the unspeakable barbarity and depravity wrought upon the Jews was perpetrated, not by a society