- The grand folly of the Eurozone Ashoka Mody, spiked!
- Defending the nation Angelo Codevilla, Claremont Review of Books
- State-building in the Middle East Lisa Blaydes, ARPS
- The Trump Doctrine Michael Anton, Foreign Policy
Links
A libertarian response to “OK Boomer”
No, not from me (I’m at home with the flu). Nick has a great post up on the topic. Vincent does, too. Jacques, a boomer himself, has a post up on American demographics. All three are well worth your time.
As is this short piece by Rick.
Nightcap
- Ownership and productivity in a capitalist society Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Provincial cosmopolitanism Nikki Usher, Cato Unbound
- China’s “bottom-up” cities (best essay on China this year) Bruno Maçães, City Journal
- The Democrats and their favorite mouthpiece Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
Nightcap
- How neoliberal thinkers spawned monsters they never imagined Wendy Brown (interview), INET
- Singapore’s thriving shadow education industry Sun Sun Lim, OUPblog
- The unraveling of Sino-Japanese relations Richard McGregor, History Today
- There is no end to history, no perfect existence Ludwig von Mises, Mises Institute
Nightcap
- The state of American alliances in Asia Panda & Parameswaran, Diplomat
- India’s new dark age Shikha Dalmia, the Week
- On the socialist revival in the United States John Judis, American Affairs
- Holocaust art and the temptation to pigeonhole Simon Schama, Financial Times
Nightcap
- Police tailgating and entrapment Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Singapore’s military elite Francis Sempa, Asian Review of Books
- Bill Barr, the man from the 1980s Ross Douthat, New York Times
- Open borders and hive minds (NIMBY) Bryan Caplan, EconLog
Nightcap
- The GOP as a decent party of privilege Andrew Sabl, Open Society
- The wider implications of Israel’s strike at Islamic Jihad Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
- ‘China’ is not really ‘China’ at all, but the Qing Empire Charles Horner, Claremont Review of Books
- Wittgenstein’s family letters Jonathan Rée, London Review of Books (but no mention of Hayek)
Nightcap
- What really happened at Troy? Daisy Dunn, Spectator
- How Britain disrespected its WWI soldiers from Africa David Lammy, Guardian
- Here’s why we can’t have nice things Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- On being edited by Barack Obama Adam Frankel, Literary Hub
Nightcap
- “Don’t read that, he is a fascist.” Pierre Lemieux, EconLog
- Trump against the professionals Ross Douthat, New York Times
- What John Rawls missed Jedediah Britton-Purdy, New Republic
- What is a “well regulated militia,” anyway? Brian Doherty, Reason
Nightcap
- Against economics David Graeber, New York Review of Books
- On liberalism and democracy Alberto Mingardi, EconLog
- Strategy and the Free and Open Pacific Gregory Poling, War on the Rocks
- The NBA-China saga, continued Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN
Nightcap
- The dangerous blinders of realism Paul Rahe, American Interest
- The Kurdish solution nobody wants (including the Kurds) Shikha Dalmia the Week
- The Soviet writer who pleased both the West and his communist censors Yury Bit-Yunan, LARB
- The Dutch Republic in the Little Ice Age Dagomar Degroot, Aeon
Nightcap
- What if peasants do not want to move to cities? Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Mass underemployment Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- The prospects for Islamic State Patrick Cockburn, London Review of Books
- Slavery reparations revisited Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
Nightcap
- Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom’ Quinn Slobodian, Guardian
- After the Berlin Wall: whither democracy? Sabine Beppler-Spahl, spiked!
- How Europe stumped Britain’s conservatives Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Republic
- Don’t forget the one-fifth clause (impeachment, American-style) Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy
Nightcap
- Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity? Camilla Townsend, Lapham’s Quarterly
- Donald Trump’s lackey in front of the Berlin Wall: “walls work” Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Liberalism according to The Economist Pankaj Mishra, New Yorker
- Slow recoveries are deep recoveries, with flatter Phillips Curves Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Nightcap
- On science fiction and cultural anthropology Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Fieldsites
- The case against galactic government Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL
- Planeterra Nullius (a very short story) William Lempert, Minds and Hearts
- The planets and you Caleb Scharf, Scientific American