Nightcap

  1. NYC public schools Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
  2. The realism of magic John Gray, New Statesman
  3. How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world Douglas Boin, History Today
  4. How not to read Bernard Bailyn Asheesh Siddique, Age of Revolutions

Nightcap

  1. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Aristotle Barry Stocker, NOL
  2. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Rome and Carthage in the Histories of Polybius Barry Stocker, NOL
  3. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Cicero’s On the Republic Barry Stocker, NOL
  4. Florentine Liberty II: Guicciardini, Dialogue on the Government of Florence Barry Stocker, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Trump and the liberal international order (pdf) Doug Stokes, IA
  2. Goodbye — sort of — to Germany? Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
  3. The failure of global liberal hegemony David Gordon, The Austrian
  4. Liberty displaced Daniel McCarthy, Modern Age

Nightcap

  1. The libertarian personality Arnold Kling, askblog
  2. The decline of the West – new and improved Josef Joffe, American Interest
  3. When a civilization retreats Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
  4. Cents and sensibility Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling

Nightcap

  1. Views of the afterlife in early Christianity Rachel Ashcroft, History Today
  2. A much darker view of the Renaissance John T Scott, Los Angeles Review of Books
  3. They’re not sending their best” John Davidson, Claremont Review of Books
  4. More American sublime Simon Schama, Financial Times

Nightcap

  1. Liberals, race, and empire Pankaj Mishra, Huffington Post
  2. The false promise of liberal order Ben Scott, Interpreter
  3. The Ottoman Empire and their Aztec alliance Ian Morris, NY Times
  4. Interview with a recently purged CCP boss Lily Kuo, Guardian

Nightcap

  1. What should we do? The right thing! Jason Brennan, 200-Proof Liberals
  2. The crusaders were not incompetent zealots after all Ian Garrick-Mason, Spectator
  3. The end of the secular republic in India and Turkey Yasmeen Serhan, Atlantic
  4. American sublime Michael Lewis, New Criterion

Nightcap

  1. On the “Muslim Game of Thrones” series Atif Baloch, DW
  2. Why secession, separatism, and disunion are the most American of values Rebecca Onion, Slate
  3. A history of America’s exceptional idea Jonathan Leaf, Modern Age
  4. Populism is a feature of globalization, not a bug Angelos Chryssogelos, Noema

Nightcap

  1. What does dystopia look like in China? Joel Kotkin, Quillette
  2. Pirates versus the East India Company Howard Schneider, National Review
  3. The other Austrian School of Economics John King, Jacobin
  4. The flowers blooming in the dark Ian Johnson, ChinaFile

Nightcap

  1. Old Vienna’s cosmopolitanism, Nazi looting, and famous paintings in museums John Geddes, Maclean’s

Nightcap

  1. This new Southern gothic film looks good Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair
  2. Could giving kids a pill boost their income years later? Nurith Aizenman, Goats and Soda
  3. The last communist to challenge Stalin to his face Pietro Basso (interview), Jacobin
  4. Some new insights into the Hong Kong clampdown Helen Davidson, Guardian

Nightcap

  1. More talk of civilization-states Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
  2. World-state formation Christopher Chase-Dunn, PGQ
  3. Responsibility, generality, and natural liberty James Buchanan, Cato Unbound
  4. No cheers for Kamala Harris Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth

Nightcap

  1. How Aztecs told history Camilla Townsend, Aeon
  2. What’s conservative about the NeverTrumpers? Ross Douthat, NY Times
  3. A policy failure Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  4. A vicious race war Kenan Malik, Guardian

Nightcap

  1. South Korea’s racism problem Tae-jun Kang, Diplomat
  2. The bullets and the battle: a dialogue Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  3. The nation-state and astropolitics Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
  4. Cancel culture and conservative glass houses Shikha Dalmia, Week

Nightcap

  1. Democracy in Puerto Rico
  2. Sweden, the lockdowns, and the rest of Europe Scott Sumner, EconLog
  3. A new history of the Vikings Tom Shippey, London Review of Books
  4. Musings on the future of remote work Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias