This is from the Austrian painter Egon Schiele:
Schiele was a buddy of Gustav Klimt’s but he died at the age of 28 in the Spanish flu pandemic.
Afternoon Tea: Town on the Blue River (1910)
Author: Brandon Christensen
Nightcap
- In search of non-toxic manhood Ross Douthat, New York Times
- How a cartoon depiction of Mohammad provoked Muslim outrage – in 1925 Brian Micklethwait, Samizdata
- Carbon taxes and the Marginalists’ difficult idea Stephen Gordon, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
- On scientific mystery and religious mystery Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
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- The many lives of liberalism David Bell, New York Review of Books
- Is the political leader teachable? Avi Mintz, Law & Liberty
- Why ex-churchgoers flocked to Trump Timothy Carney, American Conservative
- A history fit for the Taliban Hugh Beattie, History Today
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- The extraterrestrial next door Adam Hadhazy, Space.com
- Reporting reports: colonial medical institutions Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals
- The best way to defeat totalitarianism? Treat it as a joke Anna Aslanyan, Spectator
- Bureaucrats in the Defense Department: An ethnography Jonathan Wong, War on the Rocks
Afternoon Tea: Ahinora (1925)
From the Bulgarian artist Ivan Milev:
Bulgaria is a lot closer to the Orient than, say, France or the U.K. Just look at the style of fashion worn by this woman. It’s amazing!
Nightcap
- The nonconformist in society Gerald Russello, Modern Age
- Francis Fukuyama’s master concept Patrick Lee Miller, Quillette
- Are we all big-government conservatives now? William Voegeli, Claremont Review of Books
- America is deporting Cambodian refugees convicted of crimes Charles Dunst, the Atlantic
Nightcap
- The costs of hospital protectionism Chris Pope, National Affairs
- Parasitic SETI and parasitic space science Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- Between two empires (Armenia) Peter Brown, New York Review of Books
- The transition from socialism to capitalism Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
Afternoon Tea: Negress (1876)
This is from Russian painter Ilya Repin:
RCH: Cassius Clay as the “greatest American” of the 20th century
My latest at RealClearHistory:
It was also the heyday of the Cold War, a nearly 50-year struggle for power between the liberal-capitalist United States and the socialist Soviet Union. The struggle was real (as the kids say today). The United States and its allies were losing, too, at least in the realm of ideas. The Soviet Union was funding groups that would today be considered progressive — anti-racist and anti-capitalist — around the world. One of the sticks that Moscow used to beat the West with was racism in the United States, especially in the officially segregated South.
It is doubtful that most of the African-American groups who took part in the struggle for liberty were funded, or even indirectly influenced by Soviet propaganda. The clear, powerful contrast between black and white in the United States was enough for most African-Americans to take part in the Civil Rights revolution. Yet Soviet propaganda still pestered Washington, and Moscow wasn’t wrong.
Please, read the rest.
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- Bringing natural law to international relations Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty
- How to face down the Secret Service Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Affirmative Action at Harvard and statistics Gelman, Goel, & Ho, Boston Review
- The right’s triumph; the Left’s complicity Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
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- The left-wing case against open borders Angela Nagle, American Affairs
- A classic account of travel in Laos Peter Gordon, Asian Review of Books
- The remarkable rise of John Lilburne Jackie Eales, History Today
- The dilemma of India’s undersea nuclear weapons Yogesh Joshi, War on the Rocks
Afternoon Tea: The waterfall of Amida behind the Kiso Road (1827)
From the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai:
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- The art of bullshit detection, as a way of life Joshua Hochschild, First Things
- On the mind-body and consciousness-body problems Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- Lost innocence: the children whose parents joined an ashram Lily Dunn, Aeon
- Polish mayor, a centrist, was just stabbed at a charity event Jan Cienski, Politico
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- Gilets Jaunes and the age of commuter democracy Andrew Smith, Age of Revolutions
- Victor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany Peter Gordon, the Nation
- Harold Demsetz (1930-2019) and UCLA price theory Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
- The rise and fall of the British nation Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement
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- Thoughtcrime and punishment at a Canadian university Lindsay Shepherd, Quillette
- The prophet of envy Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books
- Ominous parallels? Stephen Cox, Liberty Unbound
- Georges Washington & Marshall: Two studies in virtue David Hein, Modern Age
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