The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of Orwell’s great insights in 1984 was that when a language lacks a word for a concept, it becomes difficult for people to think coheren...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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