The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

It is hard to know when to exit something that was once good, and might still be good, but isn’t really right now. There have been two fanta...

Let me begin with the obvious. I do not actually expect you to actually read these. The dead, as Kipling observed, are only borne in mind fo...

I continue to work my way through the Mike Duncan "Revolutions" podcast series. I recently got through his series on Simon Bolivar...

I have always had an uneasy relationship with political labels. I find that people who enjoy self-describing as having some kind of politica...

Let me ask you a question that has both nothing and everything to do with Haiti. How many people do you think died in the war in the Democra...