The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

[ In the quite useful parlance of Scott Alexander , the epistemic status of this post is fairly uncertain, so take with a grain of salt.]   ...

I recently watched Empire of Dust, the 2011 documentary about Chinese development in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Perhaps you, like m...

As I've been forced to contemplate recently, otherwise sensible people in America love democracy. They'll look at the ridiculous fa...

As part of my slow, winding journey through the canon of Moldbug primary sources, I recently finished Ernst Graf zu Reventlow's "Va...

In the modern world, much parental investment in their children is wasted. Parents would almost certainly be better off investing less per c...

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...