Nightcap

  1. The pre-Stalinist Soviet art scene Polina Godz, Jacobin
  2. Skeletons down by the lake Douglas Preston, New Yorker
  3. Company-states and the creation of the global international system Phillips & Sharman, EJIR
  4. Thoughts on alien life Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias

Nightcap

  1. More on Japan’s most infamous author Nigel Jones, Critic
  2. Covid and the globalization of labor Branko Milanovic, Social Europe
  3. Can totalitarianism be decentralized? Arnold Kling, Law & Liberty
  4. Fallacies about constraints Tyler Cowen, MR

Nightcap

  1. How bad was the British Empire? Katrina Gulliver, Spectator
  2. Extractive colonial economies Marty, et al, VoxEU
  3. The strange tale of Japan’s infamous novelist Thomas Graham, BBC
  4. Cosmopolitanism and internationalism Timothy Brennan, New Left Review

Nightcap

  1. Lengthening the shadow of international law Tanisha Fazal, EIA
  2. War, peace, aid, and Somaliland Scott Pegg, Africa Spectrum
  3. Beyond Westphalia Andreas Nohr, e-IR
  4. New versus emergence Chris Follow, Stumbling & Mumbling

Nightcap

  1. Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments Pannill Camp (interview), JHIBlog
  2. Sunday Poetry: Rüstow vs. Mises Alex Albrecht, NOL
  3. Millennial burnout in America Anne Helen Petersen (interview), Vox
  4. The Dunning-Kruger Effect on stature Mary Lucia Darst, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Varieties of capitalism Milanovic & Ranaldi, VoxEU
  2. Shakespeare in the military Jacqueline Whitt, War on the Rocks
  3. Tyranny unmasked Don Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek
  4. Of Habsburgs and Hayek Robert Bellafiore, Modern Age

Nightcap

  1. A sovereignty full of holes Daniel Treisman, LARB
  2. NATO’s new role in the Pacific Shannon Tiezzi, Diplomat
  3. In memory of Ruth Klüger Jonathon Catlin, JHIBlog
  4. Rules for honest conversation Andrew J Cohen, RCL

Nightcap

  1. Keep government out Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
  2. Ending endless wars? Peter Henne, Duck of Minerva
  3. Atlas mugged, not shrugged Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  4. Twitter’s emergent order Andy Smarick, New Atlantis

Nightcap

  1. How “white” is IR theory? Meera Sabaratnam, Disorder of Things
  2. Empire of fantasy Maria Sachiko Cecire, Aeon
  3. On the concept of “citizenship rent” Florian Lavit, globalinequality
  4. Local citizenship Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Why we fight over fiction Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
  2. Why money matters Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
  3. Stand up with Aristotle Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  4. Never reason from a fatality change Nick Cowen, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Measuring the size of the world Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
  2. What Engels gave to Marx Terrell Carver, Jacobin
  3. Cladistic postmodernity Chris Shaw, Libertarian Ideal

Nightcap

  1. Vaccine testing and the trolley problem Arnold Kling, askblog
  2. The flower of life Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  3. An American holiday, forged in war John Amble, War on the Rocks
  4. In defense of fantasy Mary Harrington, UnHerd

Nightcap

1. Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for you all

Nightcap

  1. The genius of Dune Daniel Immerwahr, LARB
  2. The myth of the dark ages (2020) Tom Hodgkinson, Spectator
  3. The myth of the dark ages (2015) David Theroux, Beacon
  4. Happy Thanksgiving!

Nightcap

  1. The frontiers of citizenship Jayson Porter, H-Borderlands
  2. Is it Thanksgiving without the turkey? Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL
  3. “[but] they’re not the only game in town” Rick Weber, NOL
  4. China’s clampdown on Hong Kong Barbara Demick, NYRB