- Biden turns up the heat on America’s cold wars Connor Freeman, Libertarian Institute
- Anarchy, security, and changing material contexts (pdf) Daniel Deudney, Security Studies
- Leningrad’s rock scene was pretty damn cool Coilin O’Connor, Radio Free Europe
- Nations within states and the future of history (pdf) Anthony Reid, ARI WP
Links
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- Frederick Douglass and a glorious liberty Tony Williams, Law & Liberty
- Dealing with terrorists Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
- An oral history of Texas punk Pat Blashill, Southwest Review
- Institutions, machines, and complex orders Federico Sosa Valle, NOL
Nightcap
- What have we seen in a year of lockdown? Philip Ball, homunculus
- The myth of the impartial juror Sonali Chakravarti, Boston Review
- June in Arkansas Chloe Honum, Bat City Review
- Go Bruins!
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- Four myths about World War I Mark Harrison, VOXEU
- The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis Tereixa Constenla, El Pais
- Liberal piety and power-hungry unscrupulousness Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Fifty years of fear and loathing David Wills, Quillette
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- Our very British brand of totalitarianism James Jeffrey, Critic
- Federalist versus democratic peace (pdf) Daniel Deudney, EJIR
- Go Bruins!
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- British and American fascism, past and present Priya Satia, Los Angeles Review of Books
- Why a world state is inevitable: the logic of anarchy (pdf) Alexander Wendt, EJIR
- Greater Britain or greater synthesis? (pdf) Daniel Deudney, RIS
- The Sung empire vs. the Byzantine “republic” Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
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- Conventional economics is more radical than Marxism Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- What is “conservatism” in the US these days? Daniel McCarthy, Claremont Review of Books
- The cultural contradictions of American education Kay Hymowitz, National Affairs
- Political bargaining in a federation: Buchanan meets Coase (pdf) Mark Gradstein, CEPR
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- Hong Kong voices in American politics Hui & Shum, Diplomat
- Who would rather stay at home alone? Elizabeth Brina, Gulf Coast
- The Carolingians, the Church, & constitutions (pdf) Andrew Young, SSJ
- How common is democracy throughout history? David Stasavage, Aeon
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- The Syrian intervention at 10 Paul Antonopoulous, antiwar.com (h/t Mark from Placerville)
- “Pitting people against each other” (pdf) Waheed Hussain, P&PA
- The mythical war scare of 1983 Simon Miles, War on the Rocks
- History’s empire William Anthony Hay, Law & Liberty
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- Experiments in self-reliance (Thoreau to Texas) Jonathan Malesic, Commonweal
- The Aztec revival in California’s public schools Christopher Silvester, Critic
- Racism, Georgetown law, and Salem witch trials John McWhorter, It Bears Mentioning
- How Ron Paul empowered the Federal Reserve George Selgin, Alt-M
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- Should international law be part of our law? (pdf) McGinnis & Somin, Stanford Law Review
- Are small autonomous political units economically viable? Chhay Lin Lim, NOL
- Institutions, machines, and complex orders Federico Sosa Valle, NOL
- Classical liberalism and the nation-state Edwin van de Haar, NOL
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- Plague and empire in the early modern Ottoman realm Rafael Nieto-Bello, Not Even Past
- Racist dreams and repentant racists Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Pandemic death narratives in Mexico and the U.S.A. Rafael Luévano, LA Review of Books
- Why I hate Shakespeare Michael Huemer, Fake Noûs
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- Roman and Ottoman treasures in Algeria William Dalrymple, Financial Times
- Is Israel a Jewish state, or The Jewish state? Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
- Recovering the socialist free trade tradition Marc-William Palen, I & G Forum
- A Muslim woman and the sea (Algeria) Jacques Delacroix, Notes On Liberty
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- Segregating identity (Amanda Gorman) Kenan Malik, Observer
- Toward a more global history of capitalism Andrew Liu, Spectre
- Geopolitics as theory: federal-republicanism (pdf) Daniel Deudney, EJIR
- Argentina’s alternate history María Mazzoni, Age of Revolutions
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- The miseducation of America’s elites Bari Weiss, City Journal
- Fear, loathing, and surrealism in Russia Emina Melonic, Law & Liberty
- Cancelling Adam Smith Brian Micklethwait, Samizdata
- Artificial Intelligence and humanity Kazuo Ishiguro (interview), Wired