Why do certain societies flourish, while others fail? Why, at certain times in history, have some people prospered?

Once a week, Douglas reads a chapter of his most recent book, Progress Vs Parasites, which looks at human progress over the past two thousand years - and shows how it is freedom, and ideas about liberty, that explain so much about civilisation.

President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Douglas Carswell, details how Mississippi became one of the fastest growing states in America

President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Douglas Carswell, outlines Mississippi's new conservative budget.

Why do certain societies flourish, while others fail? Why, at certain times in history, have some people prospered?

Once a week, Douglas reads a chapter of his most recent book, Progress Vs Parasites, which looks at human progress over the past two thousand years - and shows how it is freedom, and ideas about liberty, that explain so much about civilisation.

America has successfully assimilated immigrants from different parts of the world. But the United States has yet to integrate large numbers of people with a fundamentally different way of seeing the world. What can the US learn from Europe's unhappy experience of mass Muslim migration?

Douglas Carswell shares the need for change in Britain.

Why do certain societies flourish, while others fail? Why, at certain times in history, have some people prospered?

Once a week, Douglas reads a chapter of his most recent book, Progress Vs Parasites, which looks at human progress over the past two thousand years - and shows how it is freedom, and ideas about liberty, that explain so much about civilisation.

Why do certain societies flourish, while others fail? Why, at certain times in history, have some people prospered?

Once a week, Douglas reads a chapter of his most recent book, Progress Vs Parasites, which looks at human progress over the past two thousand years - and shows how it is freedom, and ideas about liberty, that explain so much about civilisation.