- An insomnia epidemic? Katherine Lucky, Commonweal
- Childhood: facts versus fads John Simmons, LARB
- The many lives of Túpac Amaru Miguel La Serna, Age of Revolutions
- The legacy of Yevgeny Zamyatin Jacob Howland, New Criterion
Links
Nightcap
- How would Wolf Blitzer respond to Savannah Guthrie on a road trip? Ryan Davis, 200-Proof Liberals
- What we owe to Donald J Trump Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Japan’s fragile monarchy Kenneth Ruoff, Japan Times
- Amy Coney Barrett on Lochner and the 14th Amendment Damon Root, Reason
Nightcap
- What is the human being? Jon Stewart, Aeon
- Premature imitation and India’s flailing state (pdf) Rajagopalan & Tabarrok, TIR
- Is it time to strike back at empire? Tony Barber, Financial Times
- Adam Smith: a historical historical detective? Nick Cowen, NOL
Nightcap
- Value judgements John Peeler, LA Progressive
- Value judgements Alex Mackiel, Quillette
- Theater in the time of COVID Noah Millman, Modern Age
- Federal futures in India and Nepal Shneiderman & Tillman
Nightcap
- Sovereignty and the modern treaty process (pdf) Paul Nadasdy, CSSH
- How states wrest territory from their adversaries (pdf) Dan Altman, ISQ
- Farage’s dangerous appeal Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Decomposing the nation-state (pdf) Murray Rothbard, JLS
Nightcap
- Libertarians and localism Lauren Hall, RCL
- The emerging world order (pdf) Michael Lee, Survival
- The last jihadi superstar Thomas Hegghammer, War on the Rocks
- A Canadian-American merger? J Dana Stuster, Foreign Policy
Nightcap
- Was liberal imperialism ethical? Kenan Malik, Guardian
- The world is trapped in America’s culture war Helen Lewis, Atlantic
- That was some election! Scott Sumner, Money Illusion
- California’s far Left governor sends his kids to private school Politico
Nightcap
- Time to read (or re-read) Main Street Matt Hanson, LARB
- Science, markets, and iterative knowledge (pdf) Hardwick & Marsh, SIEO
- “Knowledge” at Notes On Liberty
- Main Street in Gopher Prairie (and elsewhere) NOL
Happy Halloween!
Nightcap
- The two Americas (of 1965) Simon Schama, Financial Times
- The two Americas (of 1968) Jon Meacham, NY Times
- Purple America (pdf) Rodden, Ansolabehere, & Snyder, JEP
- What is the cost of pride? Rick Weber, Notes On Liberty
Nightcap
- Parties become popular by taking unpopular stands Scott Sumner, EconLog
- A European who understands America Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Pull Request
- Legal immigration into the United States Jacques Delacroix, NOL
- Birthday parties in the Soviet Union (photos) Nikolay Shevchenko, Russia Beyond
Nightcap
- 5 questions for undecided voters Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
- Useful libertarian idiocy Will Wilkinson, Open Society
- Why not randomize judges and juries? Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- Good primer on the Armenian crisis Mark Movsesian, Law & Liberty
Nightcap
- Pagan complacency and the birth of Christian Rome Edward Watts, Aeon
- Lessons about globalisation Kenan Malik, Observer
- Unschooling + math (see comments, too) Bryan Caplan, EconLog
Nightcap
- Fighting famine in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands Ian Buruma, TLS
- The settler logics of (outer) space Deondre Smiles, Society + Space
- The corporate origins of judicial review (pdf) Mary Sarah Bilder, YLJ
- Misremembering the British Empire Maya Jasanoff, New Yorker
Nightcap
- In defense of Cortez and the Conquest of the Aztecs Daniel Rey, Spectator
- Race and empire in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) Ayelet Zohar, A-PJ
- The political legacy of World War I John Moser, Cato Unbound
- How working from home will spur creativity Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair
