Coronavirus rattles US national security priesthood Nahal Toosi, Politico Has libertarianism dodged a bullet? Scott Sumner, EconLog States don’t really mind their citizens dying (provided they don’t all do it at once) Malcolm Bull, LRB Jerusalem, riots, and Israel (from the comments) Irfan Khwaja
Ottoman bird palaces Atlas Obscura Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism (the 1960s) Barry Stocker, NOL Liberalism and sovereignty Edwin van de Haar, NOL Why not world government? Michaelangelo Landgrave, NOL
The challenges of lending to Main Street George Selgin, Alt-M What Sweden has done right on Coronavirus Joakim Book, AEIR The State Has Seized Many New Powers. It Won’t Let Go of Them Easily. Andrei Znamenski, Mises Wire When disease comes, rulers grab power Anne Applebaum, Atlantic
On poverty and famine Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative Lessons from 1918 Michael Shurkin, War on the Rocks A history of capitalism via coffee David Pilling, Financial Times Urbanization and its discontents Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist
Promotions galore for hawkish Chinese diplomats Tian & Zhai, Reuters The allocation of essential supplies during a crisis Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem Racism and the contamination of freedom Fabio Rojas, Bleeding Heart Libertarians Indo-Pacific versus Asia-Pacific Francis Sempa, Asian Review of Books
The United States signed at least 29 treaties between 1789 and 1815 Rachel Herrmann, Age of Revolutions A glimpse of another kind of economy Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex The world after Covid-19 Branko Milanovic, globalinequality Old Christian icons in communist Bulgaria Terry Orr, Not Even Past
The Gospel in a time of social distancing Casey Cep, New Yorker China’s misplaced pandemic propaganda Minxin Pei, Japan Times City of globalists David Corbin, Modern Age Edmund Burke and the American constitution Ofir Haivry, American Affairs
What George Orwell can still teach the Left George Scialabba, Commonweal Why high African fertility persists Jack Goldstone, Hoover Institution Malta and the plague of 1813 Andrew Zwilling, War on the Rocks The libertarian arguments against democracy Adam Wakeling, Quillette
Another wasted crisis? Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling Come home America, we’re at war Richard Reinsch II, RealClearPolicy Vouchers fight pandemics Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias Singapore: the Sino-Semitic connection Adam Garfinkle, American Interest
Don’t wait for the government, DIY Karen Grépin, Duck of Minerva Actually, we need price gouging Antonis Giannakopoulos, Power & Market California, slavery, and the Gold Rush Paul Finkelman, LARB Wakaliwood, the homegrown Ugandan film industry Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
Human crap Gabrielle Hecht, Aeon “So, as Lenin asked, what is to be done?” Howard Davies, Literary Review What the Democrats can learn from a dead libertarian lawyer Damon Root, Reason The Silk Road, the Black Death, and Covid-19 Parag Khanna, Wired
The role of the libertarian in non-libertarian societies Fabio Rojas, Bleeding Heart Libertarians Did I have the coronavirus? Ross Douthat, New York Times Hospital bed access across Canada Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative The future of public employee unions Daniel DiSalvo, National Affairs
The Old Normal Andrew Bacevich, Harper’s “Iran Doesn’t Want War but has a big appetite for risk” War on the Rocks Nice try, economists Arnold Kling, askblog Against “aggregate demand” Chris Dillow, Stumbling and Mumbling
Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus Bresnahan & Ferris, Politico The urgent lessons of World War I Brian Frydenborg, Modern War Institute Underestimating China Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion Albania was not a True Communist country during the Cold War Griselda Qosja, Jacobin
Four types of labor and the epidemic Branko Milanovic, globalinequality Republicans, Democrats, and coronavirus Ronald Brownstein, Atlantic War with Iran: Regrets only Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth Taiwan’s robust constitutionalism and coronavirus Wen-Chen Chang, Verfassungsblog
