Nightcap

  1. Accumulation and its discontents (“stuff”) Astrid Van Oyen, Aeon
  2. How the U.S. won the war against Japan? Mark Perry, NY Times
  3. On right-wing populism and democracy John Lloyd, Quillette
  4. Has self-awareness gone too far in fiction? Katy Waldman, New Yorker

Nightcap

  1. Black, blank squares Megan Ward, Los Angeles Review of Books
  2. Why retired generals can’t avoid the parties Luke Schumacher, WOTR
  3. Forgive and be free Nathaniel Wade, Aeon
  4. The Left’s anti-constitutionalism John McGinnis, Law & Liberty

Nightcap

  1. The politics of life and death Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  2. Race in America: a cunning invention Bruno Maçães, Noema
  3. The conditions of responsible citizenship JP Messina, RCL
  4. Pompeo and circumstances Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth

Nightcap

  1. Wonderful news about Africa
  2. The Boomer and the Millenial Arnold Kling, askblog
  3. Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative strategic? Abhijnan Rej, Diplomat

Nightcap

  1. Military alliances and lessons for collective action (pdf) Hartley & Sandler, JEL
  2. Federations, coalitions, and risk diversification (pdf) Chiang & Mahmud, PC
  3. How dirty and stinky were medieval cities? Elise Kjørstad, sciencenorway
  4. America’s postwar world order in transition (pdf) G John Ikenberry, IRA-P

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