- The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL
- The Counterfactual and the Factual Mark Koyama, NOL
- The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience II Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL
- Freedom of Conscience and the Rule of Law Federico Sosa Valle, NOL
Author: Brandon Christensen
Vacation
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
- How Communist is China today? Rong Jian, Reading the China Dream
- Women in academia and Parisian literary life Ann Smith, Dublin Review of Books
- Hayek, international organization, and Covid-19 (video) Edwin van de Haar, Institute of Economic Affairs
- “Hayekian Spontaneous Order and the International Balance of Power” Edwin van de Haar, Independent Review
Nightcap
- The stories a muon could tell Jerald Pinson, Symmetry
- Moral cruelty and the Left Blake Smith, Tablet
- The Soviets and the Nuremberg Trials Beth Van Schaack, War on the Rocks
- A monumental account of the Napoleonic Wars Brendan Simms, TLS
Nightcap
- A very Swedish sort of failure Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
- “Sraffa was changing the nature of the inquiry” Ajit Sinha, INET
- The global cost of lockdown Bhattacharya & Packalen, Spectator
- How ’bout some art history of modern Japan? Audrey Clark, S-USIH
Nightcap
- Great piece on the US Civil War in the West Sam Kleiner, LARB
- China and the US-UK special relationship Oliver Yule-Smith, WOTR
- The future of the liberal world order Benjamin Studebaker, Aeon
- Commanding the heights of culture Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
Nightcap
- Black voters and American demographics Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Times
- Imagine no police Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Racist police violence, or just police violence? John McWhorter, Quillette
- Now tear down Lincoln, too Nick Martin, New Republic
Nightcap
- How ‘Russian samurai’ fought for Japan in World War II Boris Egorov, Russia Beyond
- How the great truth dawned (Soviet gulags) Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion
- How to save global capitalism from itself Raghuram Rajan, Foreign Policy
- Cultural differences and institutional integration Guiso, Herrera, & Morelli, NBER
Nightcap
- The problem of policing and local public economics Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
- The deep roots—and new offshoots—of ‘Abolish the Police’ (no libertarians mentioned) Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna, Politico
- Where are the libertarians on police brutality? JD Tuccille, Reason
- Intersectionality and classical liberalism Jacob Levy, Cato Unbound
Nightcap
- What kind of war was the Second World War? Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
- The politics of colonial reparations (Tunisia) Al-Jazeera
- The UK’s economy is heading for disaster Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- How social skills improve group performance Deming & Weidmann, NBER
Nightcap
- Sexuality and the law in the Ottoman Empire Shireen Hamza, JHIblog
- Was World War II the last colonial war? Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory Christopher Rufo, City Journal
- The Israeli political crisis: ideology or ethnicity? Ori Yehudai, Origins
Nightcap
- 1979 and the rise of “Global Jihad” James Barnett, American Interest
- Why is Sweden such an outlier? Benjamin Davies, Times Literary Supplement
- A sign of things to come? (Taiwan) Nick Aspinwall, the Diplomat
- Taking a piss on libertarianism’s grave Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
Nightcap
- Essential essay on Sino-American relations since Nixon Orville Schell, The Wire China
- Does capitalist democracy have a problem with public health? Blake Smith, Age of Revolutions
- Is birthright citizenship the foundation of American democracy? Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Nation
- Nobody tell Joakim about this (our bookless future) Mark Bauerlein, Claremont Review of Books
Nightcap
- What Social Distancing reveals about East-West differences Jen & Wang, Scientific American
- Welcome back to Kissinger’s world Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy
- Trump’s relationship with Europe goes from bad to… David Herszenhorn, Politico
- The debate around COVID-19 is starting to sound familiar Addison del Mastro, American Conservative
Be Our Guest: “Providing healthcare isn’t practicing medicine”
Jack Curtis has a new Guest Post up. An excerpt:
It was expected that doctors would have some charity patients from those less well off. You also expected that he would do everything possible for your care because that reputation was the reason you wouldn’t call someone else next time. That was reinforced by the priceless value set on human life by the prevailing Judeo-Christian ethos. No, this is not fiction; such was medical practice in Los Angeles in my youth. A simplification certainly, but it conveys the essential: Human ills and injuries were serviced by medical doctors whose state licensing and professional organizations approximated medieval guilds.
Please, read the rest.
On a different note, Jack’s excellent thoughts will be the last installment of NOL‘s experimental “Be Our Guest” feature. I just couldn’t find the time to get a decent turnaround. If you still want to have your say, and nowhere to say it, jump on in the ‘comments’ threads.
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