The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

[ Editorial Note: I wanted to risk trying something unusual for this blog. This poem was written as my submission for Lomez 's excellent...

Friends, I’m very happy to report that my daughter and firstborn child recently arrived into this world. The acute feelings of anxiety and t...

Every day, the rolls of the dead expand, never to be shrunk again. I am fortunate to have gone as long as I have knowing personally only ...

In the strange no man's land between sleep and wakefulness, I sat on the plane. I had only gotten four hours of sleep the night before, ...

There is an odd camaraderie among those who have failed. I’ve been finding this out recently (which is the reason for the paucity of re...

Poverty, to an economist, is mostly an abstract matter. Just like GDP is a number and unemployment is a number, the poverty rate is also mos...