Nightcap

  1. Sovereignty and the modern treaty process (pdf) Paul Nadasdy, CSSH
  2. How states wrest territory from their adversaries (pdf) Dan Altman, ISQ
  3. Farage’s dangerous appeal Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  4. Decomposing the nation-state (pdf) Murray Rothbard, JLS

Nightcap

  1. Election day Rick
  2. Your vote is your voice–but actions speak louder than words Kevin
  3. Offensive advantage and the vanity of ethics Kevin
  4. A short non-political note Brandon

Nightcap

  1. Libertarians and localism Lauren Hall, RCL
  2. The emerging world order (pdf) Michael Lee, Survival
  3. The last jihadi superstar Thomas Hegghammer, War on the Rocks
  4. A Canadian-American merger? J Dana Stuster, Foreign Policy

Nightcap

  1. Was liberal imperialism ethical? Kenan Malik, Guardian
  2. The world is trapped in America’s culture war Helen Lewis, Atlantic
  3. That was some election! Scott Sumner, Money Illusion
  4. California’s far Left governor sends his kids to private school Politico

Nightcap

  1. Time to read (or re-read) Main Street Matt Hanson, LARB
  2. Science, markets, and iterative knowledge (pdf) Hardwick & Marsh, SIEO
  3. Knowledge” at Notes On Liberty
  4. Main Street in Gopher Prairie (and elsewhere) NOL

Happy Halloween!

Nightcap

  1. The two Americas (of 1965) Simon Schama, Financial Times
  2. The two Americas (of 1968) Jon Meacham, NY Times
  3. Purple America (pdf) Rodden, Ansolabehere, & Snyder, JEP
  4. What is the cost of pride? Rick Weber, Notes On Liberty

Nightcap

  1. Parties become popular by taking unpopular stands Scott Sumner, EconLog
  2. A European who understands America Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Pull Request
  3. Legal immigration into the United States Jacques Delacroix, NOL
  4. Birthday parties in the Soviet Union (photos) Nikolay Shevchenko, Russia Beyond

Nightcap

  1. 5 questions for undecided voters Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
  2. Useful libertarian idiocy Will Wilkinson, Open Society
  3. Why not randomize judges and juries? Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
  4. Good primer on the Armenian crisis Mark Movsesian, Law & Liberty

Nightcap

  1. Pagan complacency and the birth of Christian Rome Edward Watts, Aeon
  2. Lessons about globalisation Kenan Malik, Observer
  3. Unschooling + math (see comments, too) Bryan Caplan, EconLog

Nightcap

  1. Fighting famine in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands Ian Buruma, TLS
  2. The settler logics of (outer) space Deondre Smiles, Society + Space
  3. The corporate origins of judicial review (pdf) Mary Sarah Bilder, YLJ
  4. Misremembering the British Empire Maya Jasanoff, New Yorker

Nightcap

  1. In defense of Cortez and the Conquest of the Aztecs Daniel Rey, Spectator
  2. Race and empire in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) Ayelet Zohar, A-PJ
  3. The political legacy of World War I John Moser, Cato Unbound
  4. How working from home will spur creativity Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair

Nightcap

  1. Culture wars are economic at their core Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  2. The anarchy of “blue” cities? Seth Barron, City Journal
  3. Reclaiming the commons from capitalism Dirk Philipsen, Aeon
  4. Utah is not a banana republic Scott Sumner, Money Illusion

Nightcap

  1. Europe and American federalism (pdf) Ernest Young, ASLJ
  2. War is cruelty. You cannot refine it.” Francis Sempa, ARB
  3. A clash of two constitutions John McGinnis, Law & Liberty
  4. Internet culture, east to west Brett Fujioka, Noema

Nightcap

  1. Toward an a priori theory of international relations (pdf) Mark Cravelli, JLS
  2. A fourth way out of the dilemma facing libertarianism (pdf) Laurent Dobuzinskis, C+T
  3. Taobao, federalism, and the emergence of law, Chinese-style (pdf) Liu & Weingast, MLR
  4. A road not taken: the foreign policy vision of Robert A. Taft (pdf) Michael Hayes, TIR

Nightcap

  1. The American Founders’ priceless legacy Myron Magnet, New Criterion
  2. The gonzo constitutionalism of the American Right Corey Robin, NYRB
  3. Britain at the end of history Robert Saunders, New Statesman
  4. Law’s disorder in Nigeria Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, LMD