Unbundling the police in Venice Beach Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic Violent protest and harmful intent Fernando R. Tesón, 200-Proof Liberals Israeli annexation, Palestinian resistance Tareq Baconi, NY Review of Books Statues are not history; rather, its opposite Simon Schama, Financial Times
Toward scientific civilization Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex We colonize the sun first Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias What it means to me to be an American Ken White, Popehat Nationalist conspiracies Siniša Malešević, Disorder of Things
The American Parade Jacques Delacroix, NOL The Rabbit Outbreak Susan Orlean, New Yorker Why Gregory Bateson Matters Ted Gioia, LARB America Since the Sixties Timothy Crimmins, AA
One nation’s heroes are another’s war criminals (statues) Clare Mulley, Spectator Unraveling the mindset of victimhood Scott Kaufman, Scientific American The rage machine comes to St. Louis Jerry Taylor, Niskanen Center Morals, politics, and evolutionary drift Federico Sosa Valle, NOL
Annexation as a policy issue is here to stay Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists Ashoka’s moral empire Sonam Kachru, Aeon Against damnation (is hell Christian?) Michael Robbins, Bookforum Lockdown among Stamford Hill’s Haredi community Toby Lichtig, TLS
A leftist take on Espinoza v. Montana Mark Stern, Slate A conservative take on Espinoza v. Montana Ed Whelan, NR Tacitus on political authoritarianism Iskander Rehman,WOTR Tacitus on barbarian liberty Barry Stocker, NOL
The legacy of Wounded Knee Christopher Flannery, Claremont Review of Books Breaking the system Rachel Lu, Law & Liberty The man who reinvented India Kapil Komireddi, the Critic Woodrow Wilson’s ghost Ross Douthat, New York Times
Vienna: city of paradox Alexander Carpenter, Aeon The Vienna of Ludwig von Mises Schulak & Unterköfler, Mises Daily Empire of Abstraction: British anthropology Nile Davies, JHIblog Wealth and the life cycle Eric Crampton, Offsetting Behaviour
Why are the police in charge of road safety? Alex Tabarrok, MR Is decentralization overrated? Jason Sorens, Pileus Can corruption be good for growth? Brank Milanovic, globalinequality What is the relationship between urban change and the ship of Theseus? Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex PS: I’m back from vacation. Hope y’all enjoyed yourselves while I … Continue reading Nightcap
Back in Brazil: bureaucracy Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL Turkey at the start of one-man rule Barry Stocker, NOL Government isn’t the only problem Rick Weber, NOL Urging Cambodians to critique their culture, Chhay Lin Lim, NOL
The importance of understanding causal pathways (Affirmative Action) Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL Legal silences Ethan Blevins, NOL Party politics and foreign policy in Brazil’s early history Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL Immigration and states’ rights Rick Weber, NOL
Expanding the Liberty Canon: John Fortescue on the Laws and Government of England Barry Stocker, NOL Rawls, Antigone and the tragic irony of norms Aris Trantidis, NOL Expanding the Liberty Canon: Marsilius of Padua on the Defence of civic Peace Barry Stocker, NOL John Rawls had good reason to be a reticent socialist and political … Continue reading Nightcap
Defending Political Liberty in an Administered World Barry Stocker, NOL The legacy of autocratic rule in China Mark Koyama, NOL Role of a Citizen in Hegemonic Authoritarianism Shree Agnihotri, NOL From the Comments: Ottoman autocracy, Turkish liberty Barry Stocker, NOL
Public choice and market failure: Jeffrey Friedman on Nancy MacLean Nick Cowen, NOL The Homo Economicus is “The Body” of the Agent Federico Sosa Valle, NOL The Left’s Gospel has no Grace Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL Computational Economics is the Right Perspective Rick Weber, NOL
Slate Star Codex has been deleted. Obviously the inarguably best post was this. Of course I don’t mean that literally; my favorite post was his review of Seeing Like a State. Fortunately, the posts archived in the Wayback machine behave nicely with Pocket. I’m going to go save a few to read later.
