The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

"Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away." - Daniel Bliss

Accountancy  always suffers the reputation for being boring and dreary. "We pore through arcane pages of tax law to find out how to sl...

"During the killings I no longer considered anything in particular in the Tutsi except that the person had to be done away with. I wan...

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the conten...

Point: Counterpoint: "I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for twelve years I worked night and day to p...

The great David Foster Wallace, describing the mindset of the suicidal: “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill h...

The contemporary mind, as illustrated by Ms. Roiphe's, has fundamental problems grasping useful concepts like "on average" and...

I came across this old interview with Theodore Dalrymple, when he's talking about his [thoroughly excellent] book ' Life At The Bot...

Via Hacker News comes this great observation : Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'. The log...

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

P.G. Wodehouse with a great description (in the wonderful old British style) of the golfing overconfidence of the mediocre: It seemed to h...

From Mencius Moldbug's ' Letter to Open-Minded Progressives ' Thus we see why progressivism is more fashionable than conservat...

"The hour for your departure draws near; if you will but forget all else and pay sole regard to the helmsman of your soul and the divin...