She and Harold are very affecting to watch.

It occurred to me the other day that Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, one of the great fictional embodiments of the rational deductive method – finding evidence, observation and all the rest of it....

This is the bizarre thing. This exact period I’m writing about is also a period of the most extraordinary scientific and technological achievement, from the mapping of the human genome to the creation of the...

[Once they gain a certain level of acceptance, mass delusions can spread like wildfire.] They’re contagious, as with clothes fashions, … Lots of people quite like to be in the swim, running with the herd,...