Innovation is a Geographically Localized and Temporary Phenomenon
Matt Ridley
China may now be the most innovative place on earth, but India may soon replace it as the world’s innovation leader My article for Discourse: Innovation is the “main event” of the modern age. It’s the reason why after millennia of comparative stagnation, the last several hundred years featured sudden, dramatic improvements in technology and […]
Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?
Matt Ridley
This is a more detailed version of the article co-written with Alina Chan on the origin of the virus causing the Covid pandemic which was published in the Telegraph on 6 February. “Viral” by Matt Ridley is coming later this year. Sign up for his newsletter and follow him on Facebook and Twitter to learn […]
Matt Ridley
The evolution of Covid is not random My article for The Spectator: In the genetic diaspora of an epidemic, there is ferocious competition between strains of virus to get to the next victim first. That leads to apparently purposeful outcomes, as if the virus had a mind. One of the things people find hardest to […]
