The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

In Chicago, on a summer's night, the sky at 2am glows with a dull grey orange. If modernity has a colour, it is this. The orange is the ...

As the estimable Mr Moldbug famously put it , America is a communist country. This is one of those statements that, on first glance, strik...

After a shameful delay, at last I have joined the Froude Society ! Previous installments covered Froude's "The Bow of Ulysses: The ...

Finance is not generally considered a stirring subject. Interesting, maybe. Remunerative, certainly. Complicated, definitely (and don't ...

It is probably not a surprise to most readers of this august periodical to find out that I yield to few people in my appreciation for econom...

In real life (certainly in this country, though not nearly as much in Australia), I've sometimes been accused of having no filter on wha...

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...

One of the most oft-repeated nonsense claims by a certain type of low-wattage intellectual lefty is that one 'shouldn't generalise&#...

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...

"No man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune." Boethius , The Consolations of Philosophy

"In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generativ...

Apparently a fungus infects carpenter ants, feeding on them and turning them into zombies that walk around erratically . The fungus makes th...