- The politics of life and death Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Race in America: a cunning invention Bruno Maçães, Noema
- The conditions of responsible citizenship JP Messina, RCL
- Pompeo and circumstances Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
Links
Nightcap
- Wonderful news about Africa
- The Boomer and the Millenial Arnold Kling, askblog
- Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative strategic? Abhijnan Rej, Diplomat
Nightcap
- Military alliances and lessons for collective action (pdf) Hartley & Sandler, JEL
- Federations, coalitions, and risk diversification (pdf) Chiang & Mahmud, PC
- How dirty and stinky were medieval cities? Elise Kjørstad, sciencenorway
- America’s postwar world order in transition (pdf) G John Ikenberry, IRA-P
Nightcap
- NYC public schools Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
- The realism of magic John Gray, New Statesman
- How the Black Sea shaped the ancient Mediterranean world Douglas Boin, History Today
- How not to read Bernard Bailyn Asheesh Siddique, Age of Revolutions
Nightcap
- Expanding the Liberty Canon: Aristotle Barry Stocker, NOL
- Expanding the Liberty Canon: Rome and Carthage in the Histories of Polybius Barry Stocker, NOL
- Expanding the Liberty Canon: Cicero’s On the Republic Barry Stocker, NOL
- Florentine Liberty II: Guicciardini, Dialogue on the Government of Florence Barry Stocker, NOL
Nightcap
- Trump and the liberal international order (pdf) Doug Stokes, IA
- Goodbye — sort of — to Germany? Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
- The failure of global liberal hegemony David Gordon, The Austrian
- Liberty displaced Daniel McCarthy, Modern Age
Nightcap
- The libertarian personality Arnold Kling, askblog
- The decline of the West – new and improved Josef Joffe, American Interest
- When a civilization retreats Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
- Cents and sensibility Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
Nightcap
- Views of the afterlife in early Christianity Rachel Ashcroft, History Today
- A much darker view of the Renaissance John T Scott, Los Angeles Review of Books
- “They’re not sending their best” John Davidson, Claremont Review of Books
- More American sublime Simon Schama, Financial Times
Nightcap
- Liberals, race, and empire Pankaj Mishra, Huffington Post
- The false promise of liberal order Ben Scott, Interpreter
- The Ottoman Empire and their Aztec alliance Ian Morris, NY Times
- Interview with a recently purged CCP boss Lily Kuo, Guardian
Nightcap
- What should we do? The right thing! Jason Brennan, 200-Proof Liberals
- The crusaders were not incompetent zealots after all Ian Garrick-Mason, Spectator
- The end of the secular republic in India and Turkey Yasmeen Serhan, Atlantic
- American sublime Michael Lewis, New Criterion
Nightcap
- On the “Muslim Game of Thrones” series Atif Baloch, DW
- Why secession, separatism, and disunion are the most American of values Rebecca Onion, Slate
- A history of America’s exceptional idea Jonathan Leaf, Modern Age
- Populism is a feature of globalization, not a bug Angelos Chryssogelos, Noema
Nightcap
- What does dystopia look like in China? Joel Kotkin, Quillette
- Pirates versus the East India Company Howard Schneider, National Review
- The other Austrian School of Economics John King, Jacobin
- The flowers blooming in the dark Ian Johnson, ChinaFile
Nightcap
- Old Vienna’s cosmopolitanism, Nazi looting, and famous paintings in museums John Geddes, Maclean’s
Nightcap
- This new Southern gothic film looks good Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair
- Could giving kids a pill boost their income years later? Nurith Aizenman, Goats and Soda
- The last communist to challenge Stalin to his face Pietro Basso (interview), Jacobin
- Some new insights into the Hong Kong clampdown Helen Davidson, Guardian
Nightcap
- More talk of civilization-states Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- World-state formation Christopher Chase-Dunn, PGQ
- Responsibility, generality, and natural liberty James Buchanan, Cato Unbound
- No cheers for Kamala Harris Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
