- A Leftist view of the upcoming SCOTUS religion cases Ian Millhiser, Vox
- Are Chinese students in favor of free speech? Hernández & Zhang, New York Times
- Paul Volcker: The man who vanquished gold Joseph Salerno, Mises Wire
- John Batchelor interviews Richard Epstein on impeachment Podcast
Links
Nightcap
- Interpreting the Ottoman Empire Michael Talbot, History Today
- Throw your testicles (medieval Europe) Tom Shippey, LRB
- Gold standards, fiat money, and resource costs Larry White, Alt-M
- On sovereignty versus empire Michael Anton, Modern Age
Nightcap
- If you want to be welcome, do not demand entry Natalie Solent, Samizdata
- US regionalism and nationalism: the case of the Midwest Halvorson & Reno, Fieldsites
- Heterogeneous drivers of heterogeneous populism Colantone & Stanig, VoxEU
- How talk of witches stirs emotions in Nigeria Adaobi Nwaubani, BBC
Nightcap
- Gulf states and US hostility towards Iran Peter Henne, Duck of Minerva
- NAFTA 2.0 offers promise of stability Milton Ezrati, City Journal
- Free trade isn’t dead yet! Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg
- “All political careers end in failure” Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
Nightcap
- China looks like the big winner in new trade negotiations Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Where does the Asian obsession with white skin come from? Ana Salvá, the Diplomat
- On Steven Pinker and The Blank Slate Arnold Kling, askblog
- In American higher education, hierarchy begets hierarchy Ethan Ris, JHIBlog
Nightcap
- The Left lost yet another election. Its response? Reposting old essays… Chris Bertram, Crooked Timber
- Israel, Syria, and the Kurds Wilkofsky & Zaman, Al-Monitor
- Automation as a colonization wave Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- The geopolitics of liberalism Nicolas Hausdorf, Jacobite
Nightcap
- Coming of age in the CIA Susan Blumberg-Kason, ARB
- Here’s what’s wrong with US foreign policy Peter Henne, Duck of Minerva
- Towards a better globalization Reuven Brenner, American Affairs
- An argument against Richard Dawkins Rupert Shortt, TLS
Nightcap
- Boris & Donald: A special relationship Lippman & Toosi, Politico
- The looming end of Pax Americana Brian Stewart, Quillette
- A lesson for the Israeli occupation Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
- A new history of Charlemagne Charles West, LRB
Nightcap
- Science was everywhere in the Soviet Union Simon Ings, TLS
- A few reflections on Paul Volcker Arnold Kling, askblog
- The failure of “the marketplace of ideas” Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- NAFTA 2.0 has slightly less free trade Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
Nightcap
- Charles de Gaulle’s alternative model for Europe Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty
- Distance from Khe Sanh to Kandahar: 0 Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Fear of the Ivory Tower Jonathon Catlin, JHIBlog
- Anarchy and public goods Pierre Lemieux, EconLog
Nightcap
- California’s fires (no mention of “property rights”) Claire McEachern, LARB
- Nationalism is not always the enemy of liberalism Asle Toje, American Interest
- Universal Love, said the Cactus Person Scott Alexander, Slate Star Codex
- Great list of recent low budget sci-fi flicks Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
Nightcap
- We’re told Americans have no free time, yet we’re watching more than four (4) hours of TV per day Ryan McMaken, Power & Market
- “A Household God in a Socialist World” [pdf] Andrei Znamenski, Ethnologia Europaea
- Why the world is in uproar right now Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Sex recession? Maybe not… Frances Woolley, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Nightcap
- Why the early German socialists opposed the world’s first modern welfare state Adam Sacks, Jacobin
- Russia’s twin Soviet nostalgias Anna Nemtsova, Atlantic
- Is our economists learning? Ryan Cooper, American Prospect
- An excellent history of China in Ghana Joseph Hammond, Diplomat
Nightcap
- The pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion
- Mendacious fictions: left-wing anti-Semitism Rahul Rao, Disorder of Things
- Virtue signalling and vice signalling John Quiggin, Crooked Timber
- The GOP’s civil war continues to rage on Fred Barnes, Modern Age
Nightcap
- Fear and loathing at the NATO summit? Curt Mills, American Conservative
- The Russians are in Libya now, too Frederic Wherey, Foreign Policy
- Is the 21st century really about US-China? Will Staton, Areo
- The opioids have been nothing but good to us Steven Landsburg, Big Questions
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