The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

In the financial world, it is a reliable rule of thumb that the largest and most lucrative forms of arbitrage will be those that don't s...

We live in an era with an extraordinarily limited imagination with respect to alternative worldviews. In the eternal present tense of the li...

Let me ask you, dear reader, a fairly straightforward question. Suppose that you and your wife or husband are about to have a child. All e...

Of all the problems facing western society, there is one question that I suspect will come to determine the answer to many of the rest. Wil...

So Canada elects another Trudeau , the son of the last one. Meanwhile America ponders electing either its third Bush in 30 years or its seco...

From the comments to the previous post : How about this argument? I think you're just pushing the social construct down (up?) a leve...

A certain class of trendy lefty and soft social science academic is fond of asserting loudly that 'race doesn't exist', or '...

Not many people really understand the idea of reversion to the mean in the context of genetics. If it’s discussed at all, it’s usually in te...