"Human experience is fundamentally composed of two things: the incoming stimulations that hit our sensory apparatus, and the ideas that we carry around about the world and which influence how we construe our perceptions. While the first is mainly governed by biological constraints, the latter is subject also to social and cultural negotiation. In his insightful book The Ideas That Rules Us, Nathan, J. Murphy walks us through an impressive amount of research and literature to investigate how systems of ideas, for instance in the form of religion, ideology and policy, come to shape our thoughts and behaviors, often in ways we are not fully aware of."

Professor Kristian Tylén

Cognitive Science and Semiotics

Aarhus University

"A broad and insightful dismantling of the constructs that influence much of our social and political environment"

Professor Andrew Barron,

School of Natural Sciences

Macquarie University

"Murphy's book is a riveting journey into the history that shapes us and the decisions that define us. Each page shows the weight and cause of decisions in a unique and entertaining way."

Patrick Sweeny

Wall-Street Journal Best Selling Author

"A bold new explanation for why politics and ideology work the way they do."

Russell Max Simon

Political Reporter, Albuquerque Journal Deputy

Press Secretary for U.S. Senate Campaign

"Nathan uses simple language to shine a light on the fallacies of the philosophies underlying societal thought."

Dr Imad Ahmed

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University College London