The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.

Saturday, July 28, 2018

On the Cultural Aggression of the Quebecois

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I was in Quebec recently. It's an odd place. Some parts, like the old part of Quebec City, feel like you've somehow set foot into a ...
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Friday, July 20, 2018

How to Break the College Monopoly on Credentials

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Suppose you were to think, like me, that America suffers from a significant surplus of university education. It takes young men and women, l...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

The Red, White and Green March

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I write slowly and occasionally these days. Life gets busy (generally for good reasons, if you were worried), and the weeks slip by. Mostly,...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

On Predicting Divorce

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Divorce, like death, is one of those things that deep down everyone assumes will only happen to other people. People believe this despite ...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Briar Patch Strategy

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Suppose that one has reached the depressing conclusion that the United States is broken, ungovernable, and heading for some kind of protract...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

On Propaganda

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What, exactly, is propaganda? To most people, it resembles Justice Potter Stewart's description of pornography - they know it when t...
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