MATT RIDLEY, author, "The Rational Optimist": Human beings have been making tools for about two million years. And, for a long time, all they made was simple stereotype stone tools like this.

Best-selling science writer Matt Ridley's latest book is The Rational Optimist, which explains why the author is upbeat on the prospects of a planet and a civilization that seems to lurch from one ...

Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and other books, dropped by Reason's studio in Los Angeles last month to talk about a curious global trend that is just starting ...

Acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley, co-author with Alina Chan of Viral: The Search for Origin of Covid-19, explains how the interference played out and why it matters to the future of medicine, ...

Mr. Ridley is the author of How Innovation Works, and Why It Flourishes in Freedom, published in 2020.He is a biologist, newspaper columnist, and member of the House of Lords in the U.K. Read More ...

Those arguing in favour of more ‘natural’ ways of farming, really mean what we should be doing is rejecting modern agricultural science and technology – turning instead to old-fashioned, less ...