- Great piece on the US Civil War in the West Sam Kleiner, LARB
- China and the US-UK special relationship Oliver Yule-Smith, WOTR
- The future of the liberal world order Benjamin Studebaker, Aeon
- Commanding the heights of culture Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
Links
Nightcap
- Black voters and American demographics Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Times
- Imagine no police Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Racist police violence, or just police violence? John McWhorter, Quillette
- Now tear down Lincoln, too Nick Martin, New Republic
Nightcap
- How ‘Russian samurai’ fought for Japan in World War II Boris Egorov, Russia Beyond
- How the great truth dawned (Soviet gulags) Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion
- How to save global capitalism from itself Raghuram Rajan, Foreign Policy
- Cultural differences and institutional integration Guiso, Herrera, & Morelli, NBER
Nightcap
- The problem of policing and local public economics Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
- The deep roots—and new offshoots—of ‘Abolish the Police’ (no libertarians mentioned) Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna, Politico
- Where are the libertarians on police brutality? JD Tuccille, Reason
- Intersectionality and classical liberalism Jacob Levy, Cato Unbound
Nightcap
- What kind of war was the Second World War? Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
- The politics of colonial reparations (Tunisia) Al-Jazeera
- The UK’s economy is heading for disaster Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- How social skills improve group performance Deming & Weidmann, NBER
Nightcap
- Sexuality and the law in the Ottoman Empire Shireen Hamza, JHIblog
- Was World War II the last colonial war? Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory Christopher Rufo, City Journal
- The Israeli political crisis: ideology or ethnicity? Ori Yehudai, Origins
Nightcap
- 1979 and the rise of “Global Jihad” James Barnett, American Interest
- Why is Sweden such an outlier? Benjamin Davies, Times Literary Supplement
- A sign of things to come? (Taiwan) Nick Aspinwall, the Diplomat
- Taking a piss on libertarianism’s grave Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
Nightcap
- Essential essay on Sino-American relations since Nixon Orville Schell, The Wire China
- Does capitalist democracy have a problem with public health? Blake Smith, Age of Revolutions
- Is birthright citizenship the foundation of American democracy? Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Nation
- Nobody tell Joakim about this (our bookless future) Mark Bauerlein, Claremont Review of Books
Nightcap
- What Social Distancing reveals about East-West differences Jen & Wang, Scientific American
- Welcome back to Kissinger’s world Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy
- Trump’s relationship with Europe goes from bad to… David Herszenhorn, Politico
- The debate around COVID-19 is starting to sound familiar Addison del Mastro, American Conservative
Nightcap
- Erdoğan and Turkey’s missing 30 million Selim Koru, War on the Rocks
- The rise of extreme politics in a federation Daniele, Piolatto, & Sas, VoxEU
- China hasn’t lost Europe just yet Michito Tsuruoka, Diplomat
- What is “God” even supposed to mean? Ed Simon, LARB
Nightcap
- Breaking the industrial bank taboo Diego Zuluaga, Alt-M
- Racism as emergence Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Neo-feudalism in California Joel Kotkin, American Affairs
- Neo-feudalism: the end of capitalism? Jodi Dean, LARB
Nightcap
- Greco-Roman civilisation has dominated ancient history for too long Philip Womack, Spectator
- The reaction against the End of History Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- Hayek at the hospital; the Use of Knowledge in hospital discharge decisions Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Don’t mistake the immediate for the important Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
Nightcap
- More on Alberto Alesina’s contributions to economics Alberto Bisen, ProMarket
- Khawaja on Cowen on nursing homes Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- How does Black Lives Matter translate? Olga Korelina, Meduza
- The politics of disorder Kieran Healy, Crooked Timber
Nightcap
- From Baghdad to Shanghai: rival Jewish dynasties Stefan Wagstyl, Financial Times
- Praise for Gary Becker’s work on the American family Kathleen Geier, Washington Monthly
- Crisis in the liberal city Ross Douthat, New York Times
- On nuclear propelled spaceships and Freeman Dyson Jeremy Bernstein, Inference
Nightcap
- Are the liberal internationalists wrong? Peter Henne, Duck of Minerva
- Order and the wealth of nations Arnold Kling, Econlib
- How libertarians plan to profit from Covid-19 Quinn Slobodian, Guardian
- Teaching my daughter to read in self-isolation Ryu Spaeth, New Republic
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