- California’s fires (no mention of “property rights”) Claire McEachern, LARB
- Nationalism is not always the enemy of liberalism Asle Toje, American Interest
- Universal Love, said the Cactus Person Scott Alexander, Slate Star Codex
- Great list of recent low budget sci-fi flicks Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
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Nightcap
- We’re told Americans have no free time, yet we’re watching more than four (4) hours of TV per day Ryan McMaken, Power & Market
- “A Household God in a Socialist World” [pdf] Andrei Znamenski, Ethnologia Europaea
- Why the world is in uproar right now Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Sex recession? Maybe not… Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Nightcap
- Why the early German socialists opposed the world’s first modern welfare state Adam Sacks, Jacobin
- Russia’s twin Soviet nostalgias Anna Nemtsova, Atlantic
- Is our economists learning? Ryan Cooper, American Prospect
- An excellent history of China in Ghana Joseph Hammond, Diplomat
Nightcap
- The pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion
- Mendacious fictions: left-wing anti-Semitism Rahul Rao, Disorder of Things
- Virtue signalling and vice signalling John Quiggin, Crooked Timber
- The GOP’s civil war continues to rage on Fred Barnes, Modern Age
Nightcap
- Fear and loathing at the NATO summit? Curt Mills, American Conservative
- The Russians are in Libya now, too Frederic Wherey, Foreign Policy
- Is the 21st century really about US-China? Will Staton, Areo
- The opioids have been nothing but good to us Steven Landsburg, Big Questions
Nightcap
- Can we still learn from Lincoln? Forrest Nabors, Law & Liberty
- On Brexit and beyond Lionel Barber, Financial Times
- On Morocco’s most revered leftist Khalid Lyamlahy, Los Angeles Review of Books
- 2015: France’s bad year Andrew Hussey, Literary Review
Nightcap
- Slowly, a civil war on the left brews Ryu Spaeth, New Republic
- African Catholics David Whitehouse, Imperial & Global Forum
- Geniuses don’t have to be nice Richard Evans, TLS
- The great American banking myth George Selgin, Alt-M
Afternoon Tea: Pear Tree (1903)
This is from Gustav Klimt, my favorite artist of all time. Click here to zoom. I just started getting in to his “nature” stuff. He and Egon Schiele made cool landscapes. Have a good rest of the day!
Nightcap
- Rocky Mountain states continue to produce excellent governors Epstein & Stevens, New York Times
- Blood and soil in Narendra Modi’s India Dexter Filkins, New Yorker
- David Graeber against economics David Glasner, Uneasy Money
- Libertarians and pragmatists on democracy Zak Woodman, NOL
Nightcap
- The future of cooperation in Antarctica Klaus Dodds, History Today
- Samantha Power’s new memoir is out Arnold Isaacs, War on the Rocks
- What do we actually know about the economy? Paul Krugman, New York Times
- The rabble and the rich (luxury beliefs) Rob Henderson, Quillette
Nightcap
- Great analysis of Turkish-Saudi cultural war Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor
- Trump has reminded the West why it preferred US hegemony Janan Ganesh, Financial Times
- The “Redemption Arc” of criminal justice Maria Farrell, Crooked Timber
- The new map of Saturn’s moon, Titan, explained Caleb Scharf, Scientific American
Nightcap
- “It’s because of how memory works.” Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- How much progress have we actually made? Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Racism ripples through rural California’s pipes Jose Del Real, New York Times
- Margaret Sanger and the cult of racism Kevin Long, Claremont Review of Books
Nightcap
- Thanksgiving, Native Americans, and land theft Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg
- How to get through the “nationalism” minefield Steven Hayward, Law & Liberty
- Rioters of Hong Kong, champions of democracy Martine Bulard, Le Monde diplomatique
- There is no deep state Scott Sumner, EconLog
Nightcap
- Is this a new era of far right terrorism? Hoffman & Ware, War on the Rocks
- Great news on US-China trade talks Behsudi & White, Politico
- Chinese porn preferences Katrien Jacobs, Berfrois
- Denmark’s own “Lawrence of Arabia” Frederic Wehrey, New York Review of Books
Nightcap
- Austrian lessons for American security William Anthony Hay, Modern Age
- Why Denmark is not part of the Eurozone Krzysztof Mroziewicz, Power & Market
- Seeing like a finite state machine Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
- Cheap laughs Christopher Hitchens, the Atlantic
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