The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of the great things about reading old books is that they transport you away from the zeitgeist of the modern era. At any point in time,...

It's been a running theme of mine for a while that prospective parents should invest less in each child, and have more children instead ...

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...