Author: Brandon Christensen

Vacation links (Tuesday)

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  1. Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year
  2. Romance econometrics
  3. Peer pressure writ large

Nightcap

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  1. Epistemological anarchism to anarchism Bill Rein, NOL
  2. There’s good BS and bad BS Rick Weber, NOL
  3. Authority as a useful guidepost Rick Weber, NOL
  4. Federalizing the social sciences Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL

Vacation links (Monday)

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  1. “Subnational Elections, Diffusion Effects, and the Growth of the Opposition in Mexico, 1984-2000” (pdf)
  2. Types of Federalisms, Good and Bad
  3. “Structural Blockage: A Cross-National Study of Economic Dependency, State Efficacy, and Underdevelopment” (pdf)
  4. “The Political Economy of Expulsion: The Regulation of Jewish Moneylending in Medieval England” (pdf)
  5. Why not world government?

Nightcap

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  1. The least empathic lot Joakim Book, NOL
  2. A note on the police or – “Why I don’t trust the police.” Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL
  3. What sort of “Meritocracy” would a libertarian endorse, if he had to? Federico Sosa Valle, NOL
  4. From the comments: follow on effects of liability rules? Rick Weber, NOL

Vacation links (Sunday)

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  1. A reconsideration of ‘marginal’ IR scholarship (pdf)
  2. Foucault’s Pendulum
  3. How does the sound cannon work? How did the police get these in the first place?!
  4. Hannah Arendt on identity politics
  5. Hannah Arendt on liberty
  6. “Can We Reduce Deception in Elite Field Experiments?“
  7. Elite anxiety

Nightcap

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  1. “Voice, Exit, and Liberty: The Effect of Emigration on Origin Country Institutions” Landgrave & Nowrasteh, CATO Institute
  2. Why immigrants are superior Jacques Delacroix, NOL
  3. Libertarian as ethnicity Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL
  4. There’s no such thing as a “national interest” Brandon Christensen, NOL

Nightcap

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  1. The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL
  2. The Counterfactual and the Factual Mark Koyama, NOL
  3. The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience II Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL
  4. Freedom of Conscience and the Rule of Law Federico Sosa Valle, NOL

Vacation

Brandon Christensen Current Events

I’m heading out tomorrow morning. Ouachita National Forest. Y’all take good care. I’ll be back in one week. The nightcaps are scheduled. I’ve scheduled some daily posts, too.

Plus, this is a group blog. BC out!

Nightcap

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  1. How Communist is China today? Rong Jian, Reading the China Dream
  2. Women in academia and Parisian literary life Ann Smith, Dublin Review of Books
  3. Hayek, international organization, and Covid-19 (video) Edwin van de Haar, Institute of Economic Affairs
  4. “Hayekian Spontaneous Order and the International Balance of Power” Edwin van de Haar, Independent Review

Nightcap

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  1. The stories a muon could tell Jerald Pinson, Symmetry
  2. Moral cruelty and the Left Blake Smith, Tablet
  3. The Soviets and the Nuremberg Trials Beth Van Schaack, War on the Rocks
  4. A monumental account of the Napoleonic Wars Brendan Simms, TLS

Nightcap

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  1. A very Swedish sort of failure Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
  2. “Sraffa was changing the nature of the inquiry” Ajit Sinha, INET
  3. The global cost of lockdown Bhattacharya & Packalen, Spectator
  4. How ’bout some art history of modern Japan? Audrey Clark, S-USIH

Nightcap

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  1. Great piece on the US Civil War in the West Sam Kleiner, LARB
  2. China and the US-UK special relationship Oliver Yule-Smith, WOTR
  3. The future of the liberal world order Benjamin Studebaker, Aeon
  4. Commanding the heights of culture Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias

Nightcap

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  1. Black voters and American demographics Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Times
  2. Imagine no police Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
  3. Racist police violence, or just police violence? John McWhorter, Quillette
  4. Now tear down Lincoln, too Nick Martin, New Republic

Nightcap

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  1. How ‘Russian samurai’ fought for Japan in World War II Boris Egorov, Russia Beyond
  2. How the great truth dawned (Soviet gulags) Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion
  3. How to save global capitalism from itself Raghuram Rajan, Foreign Policy
  4. Cultural differences and institutional integration Guiso, Herrera, & Morelli, NBER

Nightcap

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  1. The problem of policing and local public economics Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
  2. The deep roots—and new offshoots—of ‘Abolish the Police’ (no libertarians mentioned) Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna, Politico
  3. Where are the libertarians on police brutality? JD Tuccille, Reason
  4. Intersectionality and classical liberalism Jacob Levy, Cato Unbound