Thinking Out Aloud

A comment I made here . A common problem with thinkers and disciples is the disciples going beyond what the original thinker thought appropr...

Helmland is a province in Afghanistan where expensive and grandiose American ambitions go to die. It is a focus of the current war against t...

In June 2005 , novelist Lee Harris, author of The Enemies of Civilisation , published a defence of tradition specifically aimed (eventually...

Scholars and others write about the golden age of Islam, how it created a brilliant, urban and urbane, sophisticated and scientifically curi...

This is an extension of comments I made here , here and here . A Richmond Fed economist, Kartik Athreya, thinks bloggers in general should ...

This extends a comment I made here . A commenter asked econblogger Scott Sumner : I am curious. What is your take on those who argue (typica...

This extends a comment I made here . Almost one-fifth of the Australian workforce are in some form of self-employment. The table in the ana...

I am very much in favour of (intelligently) looking at the medieval period for insights into the modern age. Not merely because Western civi...