Nightcap

  1. The calamities of this dreadful time” Sarah Skwire, Law & Liberty
  2. Collapse patchworks: a theory Chris Shaw, Libertarian Ideal
  3. Apocalypse never Jeremy Carl, Claremont Review of Books
  4. The Big Questions in economics (podcast) EconTalk

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  1. 10 best history books of the decade RealClearHistory
  2. Learning from the past Helen Dale, Critic
  3. Against space exploration Kenneth Roy, Centauri Dreams
  4. …Happy new year!

Nightcap

  1. The weirdest people in the world James Crabtree, Financial Times
  2. Finding Mrs Dalloway Jenny Ofill, New Yorker
  3. Trapped by Thucydides? John Sullivan, War on the Rocks
  4. The emergence of globalism Or Rosenboim, In The Long Run

Nightcap

  1. American workers do not need unions Richard Epstein, Law & Liberty
  2. Subverting individualism David Henderson, EconLog
  3. A classic on caste in South Asia BR Ambedkar, Pragati
  4. Coronavirus and the seizing of property Ethan Blevins, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Hayek and Cassel on the Great Depression David Glasner, Uneasy Money
  2. Giving Trump the OJ treatment Thomas Knapp, WLGC
  3. Liberalism in Brazil Lucas Berlanza, Econ Journal Watch
  4. Brazil will not become Venezuela Bruno Rosi, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Albert Camus and imperial nostalgia Oliver Gloag (interview), Jacobin
  2. The true meaning of Christmas is a cozy American worldview Paul Musgrave, Foreign Policy
  3. The Christmas truce of 1914 Joseph Eanett, War on the Rocks
  4. Is cord-cutting still worth it? Stephen Silver, 19FortyFive

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  1. Merry Christmas!

Nightcap

  1. Informative piece on EU-UK trade deal
  2. Who will save the world? Ryan Davis, 200-Proof Liberals
  3. Is this how fascism will come to America? Scott Sumner, Money Illusion
  4. A middle aged Christmas Ross Douthat, NY Times

Nightcap

  1. The antichrist: a biography Nicola Barker, Spectator
  2. A lunar pandemic Dagomar Degroot, Aeon

Nightcap

  1. On that radio signal from Proxima Centauri Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams
  2. Wow! signal Wikipedia
  3. How far aggressive aliens? (Part 2) Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
  4. Legal immigration into the United States Jacques Delacroix, NOL

Nightcap

  1. It would take at least 6,300 years to reach the closest star to our sun MIT Review
  2. How far aggressive aliens? Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
  3. America’s long (and beautiful) anti-socialist history Matthew Wills, JStor Daily
  4. Big business got bigger in America during the pandemic George Dance, Political Animal

Nightcap

  1. Pfizer-Biontech: Firstcomers and latecomers Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  2. Alienation and double-think Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  3. It’s not just housing… Scott Sumner, EconLog
  4. Winters in medieval Europe Lucie Laumonier, Medievalists

Nightcap

  1. Toward a labor theory of Generation X Alisa Karl, LARB
  2. Teaching during a work stoppage David Henderson, EconLog
  3. Mystery shoppers for colleges Rick Weber, NOL
  4. Centralization, decentralization, and coordination Arnold Kling, askblog

Nightcap

  1. How slaves shape their societies Catherine Cameron, Aeon
  2. Geopolitics and change (pdf) Daniel Deudney, New Thinking in IR
  3. Bernie Sanders?
  4. Liberalizing the liberal order? (podcast) David Hendrickson, Power Problems

Nightcap

  1. The closing of New York City, again (podcast) John Calvin Batchelor Show
  2. Catastrophic events vs infectious disease outbreak (pdf; 2015) May et al, Reason Papers
  3. The international dimension of subnational self-government (1984) Ivo Duchacek, Publius
  4. 2020 is unlikely to be an inflection point” (2020) Dan Drezner, International Organization