The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of Orwell’s great insights in 1984 was that when a language lacks a word for a concept, it becomes difficult for people to think coheren...

From the distance of the present, especially for young people, the sexual morality of the past seems very odd.  In particular, the idea o...

Sometimes people are surprised when I say that I consider my biggest personality fault to be that I'm too self-centred.* Okay, not eve...

A really excellent column by David Brooks today, entitled ' The Moral Bucket List '. But if you live for external achievement, yea...

Well, Moldbug was certainly prescient on this one. (Isn't he always?). The technology brown scare  has really started to flex its muscl...

Shylock, back in May 2011 : "Guantanamo, the Saudi Secret Police, or a Predator Drone. Pick one." Former head of the CIA Mich...

Don Ritchie died today . Who is Don Ritchie, you may well ask? A good question. In Sydney, there is a beautiful stretch of cliffs near...