- Normal Joe (Biden) and the 2020 election Jacques Delacroix, NOL
- More campaign finance fiction Ethan Blevins, NOL
- The Good Life vs reality Mary Lucia Darst, NOL
- Prediction: Trump-Sanders 2016 Rick Weber, NOL
- “Medicare For All” will never work: a Brazilian view Bruno Gonçalves Rosi, NOL
- Bernie fans should want Bernie to lose the primary Bill Rein, NOL
Links
Nightcap
- Bernie, Cuba, literary, and ill-gotten gains Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- The weird global coronavirus data Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Why the Fed shouldn’t “Do Nothing” George Selgin, Alt-M
- Corporatism (“anarchy”) on the Indian subcontinent Priya Satia, LARB
Nightcap
- Learning to love the Bern Matthew Yglesias, Vox
- Is there still a West? Jared Lucky, Commonweal
- Bernie doubles down on his Israel remarks Matthew Choi, Politico
- The politics of logic Alexander Klein, Aeon
Nightcap
- Giving the Devil his due (in praise of Trump) Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Turkey (a NATO ally) launches Syrian offensive Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor
- The case for Amy Klobuchar in 2020 David Leonhardt, New York Times
- The only gaijin in the village Kris Kosaka, Japan Times
Nightcap
- Three strands of anti-federalist thought Nathan Coleman, Law & Liberty
- Globalization and postcolonial states Gupta & Sharma, Current Anthropology
- On the question of urban utopianism Philip Ball, homunculus
- Auschwitz and the new anti-Semitism Simon Schama, Financial Times
Nightcap
- Why is the public so obsessed with Nazis? Roundtable, History Today
- The forgotten fascist surge in postwar Britain Jerry White, Literary Review
- Failed states and failed civilizations Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
- The use and abuse of ethnic minorities Salvatore Babones, spiked!
Nightcap
- How millennial socialists make the case for a kinder politics George Scialabba, New Republic
- Affirmative Action: the uniquely American experiment Orlando Patterson, New York Times
- Imagining Africa (clash of civilizations?) Clive Gabay, Disorder of Things
- Anáhuac and Rome: indigeneity and religion in Mexico Arturo Chang, Age of Revolutions
Nightcap
- My mother’s last words Lee Rourke, New Statesman
- The conscience of a human being Michael Huemer, Cato Unbound
- In praise of Barcelona’s crosswalks Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Islam and the French Revolution Ian Coller, Age of Revolutions
Nightcap
- The century of Chinese corporatism Reza Hasmath, American Affairs
- The wealth and size of nations Donald Wittman, JCR
- The fertility of city-states Bryan Caplan, EconLog
- The WTO: irrelevant and unnecessary Ryan McMaken, Mises Wire
Nightcap
- More death: Croatian literature Angela Woodward, LARB
- Immigrants as scapegoats Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- On the number and size of nations Alesina & Spolaore, NBER
- Lots of respectable people embraced eugenics Alan Judd, Spectator
Nightcap
- Serfs of academe (but Cracks… is missing) Charles Petersen, NYRB
- Leaving NATO, nicely Ivan Eland, American Conservative
- Federalism and individual sovereignty James Buchanan, Cato Journal
- Lessons of the first automation crisis Steve Lagerfeld, American Interest
Nightcap
- Obama, Houellebecq, and modernity Christopher Caldwell, Commentary
- Meet the “reocons” (“reactionary conservatives”) Laura Field, Open Society
- The vigorous foreign policy debate on the Right Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
- On the liberal world order’s resiliency Duedney & Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs
Nightcap
- The Arabs: divided by a common language Patrick Ryan, Commonweal
- The Committee to Implement Annexation Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
- ABC News (US) reporting on secession in “Cascadia” Ivan Periera, ABC
- The grim reality of the cruel seas Claude Berube, War on the Rocks
Nightcap
- The disturbing paintings of Werner Büttner Kate Brown, artnews
- Muslims, Brazilians, and religion in Europe Gina Lende, Africa is a Country
- Australia can’t compete in Asia. Here’s why. Henry Storey, Diplomat
- Clemens von Metternich’s cosmopolitanism Ferdinand Mount, TLS
Nightcap
- Artists for hire: the forgotten masters of the British East India Company Peter Parker (wait, what?), Literary Review
- Lenin, capitalists, rope Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Barriers to cognitive diversity Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- How the Saudi-Iran rivalry has unravelled the Middle East Toby Matthiesen, Financial Times
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