The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Occasionally, as Paul Samuelson once noted , one is tempted to write something that one can’t decide whether it’s something important, or so...

Among most economists (among whom I count myself as one), free trade is a pretty strongly favoured policy. The reasons for this are fairl...

Among those passages that resonate with those of a conservative temperament, one of my favourites has to be Chesterton’s Fence . In the ma...

In the strange no man's land between sleep and wakefulness, I sat on the plane. I had only gotten four hours of sleep the night before, ...

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...