The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

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 ...

As Mencius Moldbug noted , if the past is a foreign country, then a reactionary is a patriot of that country. But the past being past, the...

Among most economists (among whom I count myself as one), free trade is a pretty strongly favoured policy. The reasons for this are fairl...

The great Gary Becker has apparently passed away . One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, along with Keynes and Friedma...

Some days the world is tragic in ways that don't leave you with much left to say. Via Athenios comes this story from Greece : An in...

So much has been said speculating about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that may or may not have crashed, or been hijacked, or been del...

So Pete Seeger died last week. I meant to write about this earlier, but didn't. I always loved Pete's music. Granted, I'm sure...

We live in an age where people go to enormous lengths to not contemplate mortality – either their own, or anyone else’s, really. In the...

The massive fire engine drove past me down the narrow street, sirens wailing, and turned down towards the parking lot next to the beach. ...

Specifically, the obituaries. The 'it' here is The Economist. Their obituary section, on the last page of the magazine, is far an...

A sad but sweet comic from SMBC . Brave Zack Weiner! That was drawing! Good alike at grave and gay!

How strange it is to be in the twilight of one's youth! To gaze around and reflect on the set of choices you made (whether deliberatel...

Some thoughts on the occasion of receiving an email from a friend. He went down to the Boston marathon to watch his friend finish, and was p...

From the New York Times magazine, a photo shoot of models with their mothers . Japanese artwork often associates the female form with the ...

I finally got around to watching the last episode of House the other day. It wasn’t too bad. I won’t spoil the ending, but it finishes with ...

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

...we are all dead, as Mr Keynes put it. But in the long long run, the Earth is dead too. For a thoroughly fascinating description of ho...

One of the things I always enjoy in small towns (in Costa Rica, as elsewhere) is the presence of small town cemeteries. Cities for some reas...

I read this last night, and have found myself strangely moved and preoccupied with it ever since. Popular Mechanics has a transcription o...

There's an article that has been getting a lot of press recently, written by a doctor called Ken Murray . The subject of the article is ...