The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I finally got around to seeing La La Land, apparently making me about the last person in America to do so. It was quite good, after all. But...

After a shameful delay, at last I have joined the Froude Society ! Previous installments covered Froude's "The Bow of Ulysses: The ...

While I find watching sports generally boring, the psychology of why people watch sports is fascinating. Not so much the fact that people ...

An ongoing question I've talked about a few times before is that at least some of our toughest social problems are really technology pro...

Of all the ideas in Unqualified Reservations , perhaps the one I found most compelling is the comparison of the state with a corporation. ...

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, ...