“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Notes from an Asian Wedding

I spent the past few days in London, catching up with some very dear old friends, and attending the wedding of one of those friends. (Hence the total lack of new material over the past week.) My trip back to my old stomping grounds rammed home a few things- the...

Immigration is Not the Answer

As one of the world’s most open economies is beginning to discover: Singapore may well serve as a case study for what happens when leaders try to offset slowing economic growth with immigration and increased birth rates. There are lessons that Japan or Italy...

The “Joys” of London

Charlie Bushmeister from The Single Dude’s Guide took a trip to London and was rather underwhelmed: On my last trip to London I had a small apartment off of Brick Lane, in the Shoreditch neighborhood, which is Ground Zero for London hipsterism. Arriving by...

In Which a Serious Error is Made…

wrand starts off very well in an essay about whether men fear commitment, and concludes that it’s only American women who cause commitment phobia in men: I know of several men who are committed to their marriages. They have all been married more than ten...