The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Years ago, I had a friend who once described herself in a moment of honesty as having gone through a period where she was, as she put it, an...

Is there a subject of policy debate in modern society more deranged than education? When it comes to primary and secondary education, the sh...

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...