- “The calamities of this dreadful time” Sarah Skwire, Law & Liberty
- Collapse patchworks: a theory Chris Shaw, Libertarian Ideal
- Apocalypse never Jeremy Carl, Claremont Review of Books
- The Big Questions in economics (podcast) EconTalk
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- 10 best history books of the decade RealClearHistory
- Learning from the past Helen Dale, Critic
- Against space exploration Kenneth Roy, Centauri Dreams
- …Happy new year!
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- The weirdest people in the world James Crabtree, Financial Times
- Finding Mrs Dalloway Jenny Ofill, New Yorker
- Trapped by Thucydides? John Sullivan, War on the Rocks
- The emergence of globalism Or Rosenboim, In The Long Run
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- American workers do not need unions Richard Epstein, Law & Liberty
- Subverting individualism David Henderson, EconLog
- A classic on caste in South Asia BR Ambedkar, Pragati
- Coronavirus and the seizing of property Ethan Blevins, NOL
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- Hayek and Cassel on the Great Depression David Glasner, Uneasy Money
- Giving Trump the OJ treatment Thomas Knapp, WLGC
- Liberalism in Brazil Lucas Berlanza, Econ Journal Watch
- Brazil will not become Venezuela Bruno Rosi, NOL
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- Albert Camus and imperial nostalgia Oliver Gloag (interview), Jacobin
- The true meaning of Christmas is a cozy American worldview Paul Musgrave, Foreign Policy
- The Christmas truce of 1914 Joseph Eanett, War on the Rocks
- Is cord-cutting still worth it? Stephen Silver, 19FortyFive
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- Merry Christmas!
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- Informative piece on EU-UK trade deal
- Who will save the world? Ryan Davis, 200-Proof Liberals
- Is this how fascism will come to America? Scott Sumner, Money Illusion
- A middle aged Christmas Ross Douthat, NY Times
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- The antichrist: a biography Nicola Barker, Spectator
- A lunar pandemic Dagomar Degroot, Aeon
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- On that radio signal from Proxima Centauri Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams
- Wow! signal Wikipedia
- How far aggressive aliens? (Part 2) Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- Legal immigration into the United States Jacques Delacroix, NOL
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- It would take at least 6,300 years to reach the closest star to our sun MIT Review
- How far aggressive aliens? Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- America’s long (and beautiful) anti-socialist history Matthew Wills, JStor Daily
- Big business got bigger in America during the pandemic George Dance, Political Animal
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- Pfizer-Biontech: Firstcomers and latecomers Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Alienation and double-think Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- It’s not just housing… Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Winters in medieval Europe Lucie Laumonier, Medievalists
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- Toward a labor theory of Generation X Alisa Karl, LARB
- Teaching during a work stoppage David Henderson, EconLog
- Mystery shoppers for colleges Rick Weber, NOL
- Centralization, decentralization, and coordination Arnold Kling, askblog
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- How slaves shape their societies Catherine Cameron, Aeon
- Geopolitics and change (pdf) Daniel Deudney, New Thinking in IR
- Bernie Sanders?
- Liberalizing the liberal order? (podcast) David Hendrickson, Power Problems
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- The closing of New York City, again (podcast) John Calvin Batchelor Show
- Catastrophic events vs infectious disease outbreak (pdf; 2015) May et al, Reason Papers
- The international dimension of subnational self-government (1984) Ivo Duchacek, Publius
- “2020 is unlikely to be an inflection point” (2020) Dan Drezner, International Organization