The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

The eternal question about the civil service is its level of competence . At one end of the spectrum is the curmudgeonly woman at the DMV. A...

At some point a few years ago, the predictive power of my models of permanent government improved significantly when I stopped conceiving of...

The world's financial commentators reliably inform us that periods of market activity can be divided up into bull markets, where stock p...

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.]   ...