- The economics of bubbles Goldfarb & Kirsch, Aeon
- Blind faith in government Scott Sumner, EconLog
- “Racist” is a tough little word John McWhorter, Atlantic
- The story of Plessy v. Ferguson Sean Scott, Law & Liberty
Author: Brandon Christensen
Nightcap
- Assessing Sotomayor’s first ten years with SCOTUS Ilya Somin, Volokh Conspiracy
- A case of mistaken identity Peter Miller, Views of the Kamakura
- Spain’s democratic decline Raphael Garcia, Inkstick
- An homage to Charlemagne David Crane, Spectator
Nightcap
- From “open seas” to unconstitutional warfare Grant Starrett
- From “open governance” to covert wars Christopher Preble, War on the Rocks
- What reconstruction in Syria might look like Frederick Deknatel, Los Angeles Review of Books
- The most dangerous man in the world James Pontuso, Claremont Review of Books
Nightcap
- What the Germans are reading R Jay Magill Jr, American Interest
- American conservatives have an assimilation problem Shikha Dalmia, the Week
- The technology trap Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- It’s not China that’s bellicose, it’s the CCP Aaron Sarin, Quillette
Nightcap
- The coming automation of propaganda Adkins & Hibbard, War on the Rocks
- It’s been 25 years since Apartheid ended Zeb Larson, Origins
- Protest is not enough to topple a dictator Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, Aeon
- In defense of 1980s British pop music Sophie Ratcliffe, 1843
Nightcap
- Why do Ron Paul’s racist newsletters from the 80s and 90s still matter? Steve Horwitz, Bleeding Heart Libertarians
- A great profile of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Christopher Sandford, Modern Age
- Hayek’s tragic capitalism Edward Feser, Claremont Review of Books
- An observation on semiotics in national dialogue Mary Lucia Darst, NOL
Nightcap
- Axialization and institutionalization Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
- Google’s political problems are getting worse Shirin Ghaffary, Recode
- Who wrote Ron Paul’s racist newsletters? (Lew Rockwell and Jeffrey Tucker) The Economist
- Trump is not coming for Jews, but somebody is Michael Koplow, Ottomans and Zionists
Nightcap
- The Taliban of San Francisco Serge Halimi, Le Monde Diplomatique
- Citizens of the State Maeve Glass, University of Chicago Law Review
- A wake-up call the woke won’t read J Oliver Conroy, Guardian
- The man behind national conservatism Daniel Luban, New Republic
Nightcap
- The missing backlash against finance Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- A contrarian take on the Trump tariffs Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Brave Nuclear World Emma Ashford, InkStick
- A classic in Persian literature is relevant again Joobin Bekhrad, Los Angeles Review of Books
Nightcap
- Antisemitism was anti-capitalist and anti-communist Colin Schindler, History Today
- The invention of money John Lanchester, New Yorker
- Why do we look to Science as a guide for living? Ronald Dworkin, Law & Liberty
- Salman Rushdie’s hyperloquacity Matt Hill, Literary Review
Nightcap
- Victorian values, libertarian legacy David Loner, JHIBlog
- Tyler Cowen interviews Kwame Anthony Appiah
- How I met Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- The Christian origins of religious liberty Francis Oakley, Commonweal
Nightcap
- Against revenge porn Belle Waring, Crooked Timber
- Americans’ declining mobility Charles McElwee, City Journal
- A global age of amnesia Joel Kotkin, Quillette
- The land question in China Salvatore Babones, Asian Review of Books
“Crisis in the Public Square: A Kuyperian Response”
That’s the title of Lucas‘ 2018 Calahan Lecture, which he presented after receiving the 2018 Novak Award. You can catch the entire lecture here, on YouTube.
Nightcap
- The Reciprocal Transit (aliens might be watching us) Caleb Scharf, Life, Unbounded
- No government, no problem Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
- Syria and Arabia: The great divide Robert Carver, History Today
- The French Left catches up to our own Jacques Delacroix Andrew Hussey, New Statesman
Nightcap
- The conservative revolutionary and the archaic progressive Arnold Kling, Medium
- Epistemological anarchism to anarchism Bill Rein, NOL
- Against adaptation Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Evolutionary drift Federico Sosa Valle, NOL
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