The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

(The inspiration for this post comes from here , and from a coffee conversation with The Grinch, who asked me the subject line bluntly durin...

0. Dear [redacted], It’s been a while since we spoke. You’re finishing high school and starting college soon, no? Very good. On...

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,...