Nightcap

  1. Toward a labor theory of Generation X Alisa Karl, LARB
  2. Teaching during a work stoppage David Henderson, EconLog
  3. Mystery shoppers for colleges Rick Weber, NOL
  4. Centralization, decentralization, and coordination Arnold Kling, askblog

Nightcap

  1. How slaves shape their societies Catherine Cameron, Aeon
  2. Geopolitics and change (pdf) Daniel Deudney, New Thinking in IR
  3. Bernie Sanders?
  4. Liberalizing the liberal order? (podcast) David Hendrickson, Power Problems

Nightcap

  1. The closing of New York City, again (podcast) John Calvin Batchelor Show
  2. Catastrophic events vs infectious disease outbreak (pdf; 2015) May et al, Reason Papers
  3. The international dimension of subnational self-government (1984) Ivo Duchacek, Publius
  4. 2020 is unlikely to be an inflection point” (2020) Dan Drezner, International Organization

Nightcap

  1. Mormonism and the culture war McKay Coppins, Atlantic
  2. Europe outspends Russia on defense Barry Posen, Survival
  3. The onion bomb and Hindu nationalism Rohit Inani, Newlines
  4. The revolt of the baristas Jacques Delacroix, NOL

Nightcap

  1. Lost and found at Guantanamo Bay Jasmine El-Gamal, Newlines
  2. Washington DC and the Proud Boys Ian Ward, Politico
  3. Should libertarians continue to be non-interventionists? Doug Bandow, antiwar.com
  4. The data of long-lived institutions Alexander Rose, Long Now

Nightcap

  1. The biology of dads James Rilling, Aeon
  2. Marrying off your daughter Krista Larson, AP
  3. An anti-capitalist hegemony? Chris Follow Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  4. Pegg’s essay questions (Open Borders) Bryan Caplan, EconLog

Nightcap

  1. Hayek, spontaneous order (pdf) Scott Boykin, TIR
  2. Karl Marx Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
  3. United Arab Emirates Rafia Zakaria, Baffler
  4. American capitalism Edward Glaeser, City Journal

Nightcap

  1. The return of European intellectual life Perry Anderson, LRB
  2. The age of dreampolitix in America Ross Douthat, NY Times
  3. Psychedelics versus modern philosophy Bill Rein, NOL
  4. Does libertarianism favor labor? Arnold Kling, EconLog

Nightcap

  1. Accidents in ideological machines Chris Shaw, Libertarian Ideal
  2. Reordering the liberal world order Duncan Bell, Disorder of Things
  3. 10 best history books of 2020? RealClearHistory
  4. Byzantines, Ottomans, and Turkey Nick Ashdown, Newlines

Nightcap

  1. Clarence Thomas and the Left Mark Pulliam, Law & Liberty
  2. Religious liberty and the Left Ian Millhiser, Vox
  3. Mughal hegemony Manjeet Pardesi, EJIR
  4. Was Shikha Dalmia purged? George Dance, Political Animal

Nightcap

  1. The whiteness of Jews Jason Brennan, 200-Proof Liberals
  2. Walter Williams, RIP Peter Boettke, City Journal
  3. Your den of theives experience Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
  4. Three lessons on institutions and incentives Federico Sosa Valle, NOL

Nightcap

  1. The pre-Stalinist Soviet art scene Polina Godz, Jacobin
  2. Skeletons down by the lake Douglas Preston, New Yorker
  3. Company-states and the creation of the global international system Phillips & Sharman, EJIR
  4. Thoughts on alien life Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias

Nightcap

  1. More on Japan’s most infamous author Nigel Jones, Critic
  2. Covid and the globalization of labor Branko Milanovic, Social Europe
  3. Can totalitarianism be decentralized? Arnold Kling, Law & Liberty
  4. Fallacies about constraints Tyler Cowen, MR

Nightcap

  1. How bad was the British Empire? Katrina Gulliver, Spectator
  2. Extractive colonial economies Marty, et al, VoxEU
  3. The strange tale of Japan’s infamous novelist Thomas Graham, BBC
  4. Cosmopolitanism and internationalism Timothy Brennan, New Left Review

Nightcap

  1. Lengthening the shadow of international law Tanisha Fazal, EIA
  2. War, peace, aid, and Somaliland Scott Pegg, Africa Spectrum
  3. Beyond Westphalia Andreas Nohr, e-IR
  4. New versus emergence Chris Follow, Stumbling & Mumbling