- Colin Powell: subordinate or statesman? Elizabeth Spalding, Law & Liberty
- Another right abolished by the government’s COVID lockdown Ryan McMaken, Power & Market
- “All our efficiencies melted away in the face of a man-made depression.” Razib Khan, City Journal
- Bread Arrives Patrick Henry, Commonweal
Links
Nightcap
- Behind the Iron Curtain: Soviet space art (gallery) Kadish Morris, Guardian
- The year I left the Soviet Union Alex Halberstadt, New Yorker
- Free speech, libel, and privacy rights Mark Hemmingway, RealClearPolitics
- 8 out of 10 Texans already live in cities and metropolitan areas Steven Pedigo, Dallas Morning News
Nightcap
- The making of an Oriental Yankee Ed Park, NYRB
- “Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy” Denny Roy, Diplomat
- Good piece on the coronavirus James Hamblin, Atlantic
- Did you kill anyone? Titus Techera, Law & Liberty
Nightcap
- Coronavirus rattles US national security priesthood Nahal Toosi, Politico
- Has libertarianism dodged a bullet? Scott Sumner, EconLog
- States don’t really mind their citizens dying (provided they don’t all do it at once) Malcolm Bull, LRB
- Jerusalem, riots, and Israel (from the comments) Irfan Khawaja
Nightcap
- Ottoman bird palaces Atlas Obscura
- Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism (the 1960s) Barry Stocker, NOL
- Liberalism and sovereignty Edwin van de Haar, NOL
- Why not world government? Michaelangelo Landgrave, NOL
Nightcap
- The challenges of lending to Main Street George Selgin, Alt-M
- What Sweden has done right on Coronavirus Joakim Book, AEIR
- The State Has Seized Many New Powers. It Won’t Let Go of Them Easily. Andrei Znamenski, Mises Wire
- When disease comes, rulers grab power Anne Applebaum, Atlantic
Nightcap
- On poverty and famine Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
- Lessons from 1918 Michael Shurkin, War on the Rocks
- A history of capitalism via coffee David Pilling, Financial Times
- Urbanization and its discontents Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist
Nightcap
- Promotions galore for hawkish Chinese diplomats Tian & Zhai, Reuters
- The allocation of essential supplies during a crisis Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
- Racism and the contamination of freedom Fabio Rojas, Bleeding Heart Libertarians
- Indo-Pacific versus Asia-Pacific Francis Sempa, Asian Review of Books
Nightcap
- The United States signed at least 29 treaties between 1789 and 1815 Rachel Herrmann, Age of Revolutions
- A glimpse of another kind of economy Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- The world after Covid-19 Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Old Christian icons in communist Bulgaria Terry Orr, Not Even Past
Nightcap
- The Gospel in a time of social distancing Casey Cep, New Yorker
- China’s misplaced pandemic propaganda Minxin Pei, Japan Times
- City of globalists David Corbin, Modern Age
- Edmund Burke and the American constitution Ofir Haivry, American Affairs
Nightcap
- What George Orwell can still teach the Left George Scialabba, Commonweal
- Why high African fertility persists Jack Goldstone, Hoover Institution
- Malta and the plague of 1813 Andrew Zwilling, War on the Rocks
- The libertarian arguments against democracy Adam Wakeling, Quillette
Nightcap
- Another wasted crisis? Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Come home America, we’re at war Richard Reinsch II, RealClearPolicy
- Vouchers fight pandemics Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- Singapore: the Sino-Semitic connection Adam Garfinkle, American Interest
Nightcap
- Don’t wait for the government, DIY Karen Grépin, Duck of Minerva
- Actually, we need price gouging Antonis Giannakopoulos, Power & Market
- California, slavery, and the Gold Rush Paul Finkelman, LARB
- Wakaliwood, the homegrown Ugandan film industry Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
Nightcap
- Human crap Gabrielle Hecht, Aeon
- “So, as Lenin asked, what is to be done?” Howard Davies, Literary Review
- What the Democrats can learn from a dead libertarian lawyer Damon Root, Reason
- The Silk Road, the Black Death, and Covid-19 Parag Khanna, Wired
Nightcap
- The role of the libertarian in non-libertarian societies Fabio Rojas, Bleeding Heart Libertarians
- Did I have the coronavirus? Ross Douthat, New York Times
- Hospital bed access across Canada Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
- The future of public employee unions Daniel DiSalvo, National Affairs
