Author: Brandon Christensen

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  1. The state of American alliances in Asia Panda & Parameswaran, Diplomat
  2. India’s new dark age Shikha Dalmia, the Week
  3. On the socialist revival in the United States John Judis, American Affairs
  4. Holocaust art and the temptation to pigeonhole Simon Schama, Financial Times

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  1. Police tailgating and entrapment Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  2. Singapore’s military elite Francis Sempa, Asian Review of Books
  3. Bill Barr, the man from the 1980s Ross Douthat, New York Times
  4. Open borders and hive minds (NIMBY) Bryan Caplan, EconLog

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  1. The GOP as a decent party of privilege Andrew Sabl, Open Society
  2. The wider implications of Israel’s strike at Islamic Jihad Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
  3. ‘China’ is not really ‘China’ at all, but the Qing Empire Charles Horner, Claremont Review of Books
  4. Wittgenstein’s family letters Jonathan Rée, London Review of Books (but no mention of Hayek)

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  1. What really happened at Troy? Daisy Dunn, Spectator
  2. How Britain disrespected its WWI soldiers from Africa David Lammy, Guardian
  3. Here’s why we can’t have nice things Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  4. On being edited by Barack Obama Adam Frankel, Literary Hub

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  1. “Don’t read that, he is a fascist.” Pierre Lemieux, EconLog
  2. Trump against the professionals Ross Douthat, New York Times
  3. What John Rawls missed Jedediah Britton-Purdy, New Republic
  4. What is a “well regulated militia,” anyway? Brian Doherty, Reason

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  1. Against economics David Graeber, New York Review of Books
  2. On liberalism and democracy Alberto Mingardi, EconLog
  3. Strategy and the Free and Open Pacific Gregory Poling, War on the Rocks
  4. The NBA-China saga, continued Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN

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  1. The dangerous blinders of realism Paul Rahe, American Interest
  2. The Kurdish solution nobody wants (including the Kurds) Shikha Dalmia the Week
  3. The Soviet writer who pleased both the West and his communist censors Yury Bit-Yunan, LARB
  4. The Dutch Republic in the Little Ice Age Dagomar Degroot, Aeon

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  1. What if peasants do not want to move to cities? Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
  2. Mass underemployment Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  3. The prospects for Islamic State Patrick Cockburn, London Review of Books
  4. Slavery reparations revisited Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth

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  1. Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom’ Quinn Slobodian, Guardian
  2. After the Berlin Wall: whither democracy? Sabine Beppler-Spahl, spiked!
  3. How Europe stumped Britain’s conservatives Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Republic
  4. Don’t forget the one-fifth clause (impeachment, American-style) Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy

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  1. Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity? Camilla Townsend, Lapham’s Quarterly
  2. Donald Trump’s lackey in front of the Berlin Wall: “walls work” Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  3. Liberalism according to The Economist Pankaj Mishra, New Yorker
  4. Slow recoveries are deep recoveries, with flatter Phillips Curves Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

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  1. On science fiction and cultural anthropology Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Fieldsites
  2. The case against galactic government Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL
  3. Planeterra Nullius (a very short story) William Lempert, Minds and Hearts
  4. The planets and you Caleb Scharf, Scientific American

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  1. Beyond the ideological lie: The revolution of 1989 thirty years later Daniel Mahoney, Law & Liberty
  2. Cheer the fall of the Wall Bryan Caplan, EconLog
  3. Don’t venerate the nation-state Dalibor Rohac, Standpoint
  4. Finally, a good idea comes out of Washington Jack Crowe, National Review

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  1. Taking cross cultural psychology seriously Tanner Greer, Scholar’s Stage
  2. East Germans, bio-Germans, passport Germans Katrin Benhold, New York Times
  3. The Texas-Latvia connection Graeme Wood, the Atlantic
  4. “Scholar reads obituary over coffee” Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth

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  1. Explaining the Japan-Korea dispute Matsuda & Park, War on the Rocks
  2. Mosul and the fall of the Caliphate David French, National Review
  3. Technology and madness in computational capitalism Leonid Bilmes, Los Angeles Review of Books
  4. Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi Jacob Lee, Origins

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  1. History is, to some extent, inescapably nationalist Colin Kidd, History Today
  2. In praise of Jewish achievement Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
  3. In defense of NIMBYism Addison del Mastro, American Conservative
  4. The way life comes at us Paul Griffiths, Commonweal