The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Continuing my foray into the illustrious brotherhood of the Froude Society , I’ve been reading Popular Government by Sir Henry Sumner Maine...

There are few things in this world more stable than a man’s self-image. You might think, perhaps reasonably, that values and core beliefs ...

As part of my ongoing attempts to join the illustrious brotherhood of the Froude Society , I’ve been reading ‘ The Bow of Ulysses ’, by Jame...

The Dissenting Sociologist began a post  recently with a quite striking sentence: “ The principle that “the wise shall govern the strong” ...

We live in an era with an extraordinarily limited imagination with respect to alternative worldviews. In the eternal present tense of the li...

The standard mythology of the right is that the constitution established separation of powers and limited government. By restricting the pow...

Let me ask you, dear reader, a fairly straightforward question. Suppose that you and your wife or husband are about to have a child. All e...

Why, exactly, do people spend so much time talking about the US election? There is an argument that this election is particularly import...

From the distance of the present, especially for young people, the sexual morality of the past seems very odd.  In particular, the idea o...

At the risk of cementing my place as a curmudgeon, the National Conventions of the US political parties always struck me as thoroughly bizar...

It is always hazardous writing about coup attempts before everything is done and dusted, but the recent one in Turkey is notable in several...