The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Narcissism is, as the  Last Psychiatrist put it , the disease of our age. But why this age, and not the ones before it? If we ended up in...

In Chicago, on a summer's night, the sky at 2am glows with a dull grey orange. If modernity has a colour, it is this. The orange is the ...

As I’ve written about in the past, by my reckoning the direst problem of our time is that the west is not having enough children to repla...

Well, it’s been about 6 months since my last Bitcoin post . I think what I wrote back in May stands up pretty well so far. Certainly the pr...

Both the economist and the historian are students of human organisations and behaviour. The economist (at least in his empiricist manife...

As Mencius Moldbug noted , if the past is a foreign country, then a reactionary is a patriot of that country. But the past being past, the...

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 ...