The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

So, we're about at the halfway point since I made the following prediction , half in jest, as my version of the Julian Simon bet : Sho...

The current Syrian refugee crisis in Europe is a tragedy. Should that sentence strike regular readers as a little trite, bear with me. I ...

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...

Colonialism, in the eyes of the great and the good, is responsible for all of the third world's ills. This hypothesis is obviously abs...

I cannot be the only one who thinks that the pace of leftward social change seems to have increased of late. I find it interesting to t...

Tell me what you infer about Chilean government from this photo. My answer below the fold

In the context of the Strangeloop contretemps , it is worth being clear about what the aim is (in my view). I think it is a rhetorical mis...

I worried, but secretly knew, that this day would eventually come.  So, I strongly suspect, did he. It seems that the political retribu...

I used to tell people that they should read Mencius Moldbug, because he was the single person writing today most likely to be read in two h...

Scene: Kiev, 1933. It is the height of the Holodomor . Two Ukranian men, Aleksandr and Dmitriy, both lie hopelessly prone on the side of a ...

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

There exists a continual tension among respectable social scientists when trying to understand what influence culture plays on the world. On...

Sometimes when I travel, the things that are striking are the absences compared with my home (adopted, in this case). America is very much t...

It is interesting to compare the fate of two St Paul’s Churches. The one in London was famously and mercifully intact and mostly unharmed a...