The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

It's rare that I'm ahead of the curve in very much. But the latest Steve Sailer column had the following puzzling claim : Nobody ...

One of the frequent complaints about modernity that both reactionaries and conservatives agree upon is the lamentable decline in the standar...

In the financial world, it is a reliable rule of thumb that the largest and most lucrative forms of arbitrage will be those that don't s...

[ 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...