Thinking Out Aloud

We think of the World Wars of the C20th as being unprecedented in their death tolls. That is not true in either total deaths or, still less...

One of the things that has been strongly associated with the modern age is for increasing life expectancies. So, it is startling to disco...

One of the frustrating things about trying to have an intelligent debate about matters Islamic is the tendency to simplistic polarisation. ...

And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen...

One of the less pleasant sights of Melbourne is sneakers tied together and hanging from overhead wires. These are trophies of some kid b...

Based on a comment I made here . Nominal wage stickiness is about contracts being written in nominal terms. But, given heterogeneous co...

I recently had the unexpected experience of reading a book that appalled me; this is not a reaction I can remember having to a book before...

So, Tim Worstall  has invoked  the recurring fascination of Anglosphere progressivists of various stripes with adapting the Nordic model t...

This is based on a comment I made here . From reading David Glasner's Uneasy Money blog , I have developed a general thesis about ...

I had a avoided the  Glee  thing -- too much of a cliche, gay man has to like a TV show about putting on musical numbers with a gay charac...

Over the last twelve months or so, the blogosphere saw another round of a long-standing fight over money. Not over getting more money (tho...

One of my basic analytical principles is that things reveal their nature in history (including the history that has not happened yet -- th...