The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

The US Supreme Court is currently considering arguments for and against gay marriage. In the prognosticating about what was going to happen...

(...continued from Part 1 ) The aftermath of the financial crisis saw the election of Obama, and the resulting stimulus bill was basically...

Shylock circa 2003 was mainly a neo-conservative. By this, I mean that I tended to view democracy as both a moral good and an instrumental g...

As they said in Wargames, the only winning move is not to play. Over at Priceonomics, they had an excellent piece recently with the arrest...

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

The most useful source of information on US political events, Intrade , is shutting down : With sincere regret we must inform you that due...

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

Over at Hacker News, there was a link to this great Forbes article talking about the differences in regulation in the treatment of eggs . A...

There was this great piece on Hacker News a little while ago on the  Silk Road . Apparently it's possible to buy drugs over the internet...

So if you haven't been following, Isabella herself graced us with her presence in the comments to my post on the blog 'She's a...

Quote of the day, from AL, referencing the case of Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympian accused of shooting his girlfriend : I...

Like the tobacco industry, you need not want to purchase a product to respect a well-constructed business strategy. Consider the example o...

(Previous thoughts on the psychology of strip clubs  here , and male self-deception in relationships  here  and  here .) The standard comp...

"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...

-Mark Steyn gives a rousing defense of free speech following the scandalously underreported assassination attempt on Danish free speech adv...

A fairly robust fact about celebrities is that they tend to date and/or marry other celebrities. The most obvious explanation for this is ...

Jwz recently posted  about this blog called ' She's a flight risk ', which ran from 2003 to 2006 and is diary of sorts claiming...

Apropos nothing, the great G. K. Chesterton, on Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto : Lepanto White founts falling in the cour...