The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Apologies, my dear readers (if any of you still exist) for my extended absence. A combination of moving house, work being busy, and life in ...

As the estimable Mr Moldbug famously put it , America is a communist country. This is one of those statements that, on first glance, strik...

"Nature," as Mr Emerson once noted , "has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended." A ...

One of the advantages of the economist's training is just the ability to instinctively think in terms of empirical tests. There's a ...

As I mentioned last time, I’ve been listening to Patrick Wyman’s excellent podcast series “ The Fall of Rome ”. One of the things that’s m...

As far as I can tell, the primary problem with Bitcoin is that after you've bought it, you become medically incapable of shutting the @#...

What is gone, but still remembered, is quite vivid and easy to see. What is yet to come is often only perceived dimly, if at all. For a r...