I’ve always said “garbage,” but down here in Texas they use the word “trash.” I have no idea where I found this, and I can’t verify the source, but it looks right to me.
Any contrary arguments about this map?
Author: Brandon Christensen
Nightcap
- Radical republicans and early modern democrats, Dutch style Dirk Alkemade, Age of Revolutions
- Did socialism keep capitalism equal? Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- John McCain in 1974 Arnold Isaacs, War on the Rocks
- U.S.-Soviet hotline a symbol of Cold War cooperation Rick Brownell, Historiat
Nightcap
- Things I hate about the US constitution Ilya Somin, Volokh Conspiracy
- At the Khmer Rogue tribunal MG Zimeta, London Review of Books
- Reductionism and anti-reductionism about painting Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- A foreign policy for the Left Samuel Moyn, Modern Age
Nightcap
- The dark side of war propaganda Bradley Anderson, American Conservative
- Is internationalism liberal or imperialist? Arnold Kling, askblog
- Internationalism is federalist, Arnold! Brandon Christensen, NOL
- ISIS and Sykes-Picot Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
RCH: death and taxes
I’ve been so busy I forgot about my Tuesday column over at RealClearHistory (I have a Friday column, too). Last week’s column was about the trial and execution of two Italian-born anarchists in Massachusetts:
The anarchism of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was left-wing and violent. Very violent. The two young men were admirers of Luigi Galleani, an Italian anarchist who advocated violence as the best way to achieve a more anarchist world. Sacco and Vanzetti, the executed, were part of an American syndicate dedicated to Galleani’s ideals. This syndicate was responsible for bombings, assassination attempts, printing and distributing bomb-making books, and even mass poisonings in the United States. The Galleanists were so violent that they sat atop a list of the federal government’s most dangerous enemies. On April 15, 1920, an armed robbery at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Mass., went awry and two men, a guard and an accountant (“paymaster”) were killed by the robbers. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused, convicted, and sentenced to death.
This week’s column focused on Shays’ Rebellion:
The Shaysites, as supporters of Daniel Shays came to be known, eventually grew to thousands of men, and the movement grew confident enough that it planned to seize a federal armory. However, the governor of Massachusetts, James Bowdoin, directed a local militia leader (William Shepard) to protect the armory. The armory, though, was federal property, and the militia was operating under state direction, so the seizure of the armory in the name of protecting it from rebels had the potential to ignite a powder keg of legal ramifications throughout the war-torn eastern seaboard.
Y’all stay sane out there!
Nightcap
- In Japan, ghost stories are not to be scoffed at Christopher Harding, Aeon
- Montesquieu was the ultimate revisionist Henry Clark, Law & Liberty
- Did British merchants cause the Opium War? Jeffrey Chen, Quillette
- The eclipse of Catholic fusionism Kevin Gallagher, American Affairs
Nightcap
- What do we mean by “meaning”? Scott Sumner, Money Illusion
- The Sōseki of Prague Duncan Stuart, 3:AM Magazine
- The Civic Sacred Cow Wayland Hunter, Liberty Unbound
- The (American) Civil War’s Most Infamous Atrocity Rick Brownell, Historiat
Nightcap
- The science war Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
- On wider access to culture Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Spaceship Earth explores Culture Space Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- The liberal dream is freedom plus groceries (and that’s okay) Brad DeLong, Grasping Reality
Nightcap
- What would it take to build a tower as high as outer space? Sun & Popescu, Aeon
- Progressive/libertarian: the alliance that isn’t Bryan Caplan, EconLog
- An atlas of diplomacy Francis Sempa, Asian Review of Books
- How to save the Catholic Church Rachel Lu, the Week
Eye Candy: the provinces of ancient Rome
This is a beautiful map of Rome’s administrative units. There’s not much more to say, really.
Here is Barry on Roman law. Here is Mark on the Roman economy. Have a good week!
Nightcap
- The transformation of the liberal political tradition in the nineteenth century Pamela Nogales, Age of Revolutions
- Kurds have conditions for an alliance with Shiites in Iraq Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor
- Mau-Mauing Myself Harry Stein, City Journal
- Is the sharing economy exploitative? Per Bylund, Power & Market
RCH: 10 libertarian thoughts on the (American) Civil War
I went there. I did it. I dropped a doo-doo right in the middle of August, for all the world to see. An excerpt:
5. Shout-outs to Alexis de Tocqueville and Joseph Smith. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote the best book on America, ever. Joseph Smith founded the “American religion” (to quote Leo Tolstoy). Both men also saw that the north-south divide in the United States was bound to lead to future calamity. It wouldn’t be accurate to call their thoughts on the American divide “predictions,” but both men were outsiders in one form or another, and both men have etched their names into history. The French, who had lost Tocqueville just two years prior to the beginning of the Civil War, approach to the American bloodbath was to remain neutral (after consulting with the United Kingdom), and instead invade Mexico. Napoleon III invaded Mexico, in the name of free trade, late in 1861 and established a puppet monarchy, which angered the United States as it violated the Monroe Doctrine. However, there was not much the U.S. could do and Napoleon III did not abandon his puppet until early 1866, when it became apparent which side was victorious in the American Civil War. The French preferred normalized relations with the American republic to a puppet monarch in the Mexican one. The Mormons, for their part, largely sat out the Civil War. Volunteers from Utah helped guard the mail routes from Indian attacks, but other than that, the Mormons, who had not yet been assimilated into American society (indeed, they had only fled from violence in Missouri to Utah a few decades prior to the Civil War), were content to let both sides bleed.
Please, read the rest.
Nightcap
- The other side of broken windows Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker
- “Peace through strength” is weakening Putin at home Krishnadev Calamur, the Atlantic
- How to cleanse the Catholic Church Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer
- The garment of terrorism Azadeh Moaveni, London Review of Books
Nightcap
- Why Czechs don’t speak German Jacklyn Janeksela, BBC
- The Kurds, Sykes-Picot and the quest for redrawing borders Nick Danforth, BPC
- The language of the economy: prices Rick Weber, NOL
- A Balkan border change the West should welcome Marko Prelec, Politico EU
Nightcap
- Yoram Hazony and the New Nationalism Samuel Goldman, Modern Age
- The archive of comics sponsored by South Africa’s Apartheid government William Worger (interview), Africa is a Country
- Photo essay on the Soviet squelching of the Prague Spring Alan Taylor, the Atlantic
- Failed states and failed civilizations Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
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