The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I write slowly and occasionally these days. Life gets busy (generally for good reasons, if you were worried), and the weeks slip by. Mostly,...

Both the economist and the historian are students of human organisations and behaviour. The economist (at least in his empiricist manife...

Last time I tackled the question of exit, we talked about the feasibility of secession , and how I thought that scenario would play out (sh...

Back in 2003, in the lead-up to the Iraq War, a younger Shylock Holmes was an ardent neoconservative. Democracy was, in my view at the time...

The statue of Holger Danske sits in Kronborg castle in Helsingør, Denmark. According to the legend, as told by the guide at Helsingør,...

The American/British version, not the Russian/French one. Check it out . It starts here , and is up to part 9 so far. Do yourself a favor ...

If I had to nominate my favourite aspect of the internet, it's the ability to come across writers with uniquely interesting perspectives...

I find it interesting sometimes to imagine how my worldview might change if I experienced different events. It seems elementary that if you...

After the previous post on the subject , I've been making my way through Paul Fussell's book on World War II, ' Wartime: Underst...

Via Hacker News comes this amazing article from The Atlantic in 1989, written by Paul Fussell. It describes what World War II was like from...

A statistic that I had a strong hunch was true as soon as I heard it : The suicide rates are at all time highs and rising in the Army and ...