- Soviet champagne, for the working man Jessica Gingrich, Atlas Obscura
- Radio and modern state power in Angola Jesse Bucher, Africa is a Country
- East and West Germany in 2019 Sumi Somaskanda, New Statesman
- The deeply dedicated American state Michael McFaul, New York Review of Books
Links
Nightcap
- Nationalization is as American as apple pie Thomas Hanna, Jacobin
- In China, every day is Kristallnacht Fred Hiatt, Washington Post
- How Mengzi bested the Golden Rule Eric Schwitzgebel, Aeon
- Countries are not anecdotes Scott Sumner, EconLog
Nightcap
- The gory, secret lives of NHL dentists David Fleming, ESPN
- Imam publicly caned for breaking adultery law he helped draft BBC
- The Chinese Communist Party on the worldwide protests Global Times
- Are countries like people? Niall Ferguson, Times Literary Supplement
Nightcap
- Confessions of a confused ex-libertarian Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Big Coal: Can Warren succeed where Trump failed? Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Warren’s health care albatross Ross Douthat, New York Times
- What, if anything, is neoliberalism? John Quiggan, Crooked Timber
Nightcap
- Sovereignty sharing in fragile states John Ciorciari, Horns of a Dilemma
- October reading regrets Journal of the History of Ideas blog
- A non-Western canon (start with Asia) Tanner Greer, Scholar’s Stage
- Firms and cities have open borders Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
Nightcap
- The spirits of 1989 Daniel McCarthy, Modern Age
- Trust cycles in politics Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- A profile of Christine Lagarde Hujer & Sauga, Spiegel
- Catholicism and its critics Tim Stanley, History Today
Nightcap
- Spaghetti monsters and free exercise Ethan Blevins, NOL
- Social warfare (government schools) Mary Lucia Darst, NOL
- Vulvæ in pornography and culture Bill Rein, NOL
- Early childhood memories of a Cambodian refugee camp Chhay Lin Lim, NOL
Nightcap
- Bosnia’s mosques without Muslims Colborne & Edwards, Los Angeles Review of Books
- China and the Ricardian vice Samuel Hammond, National Affairs
- The closing of the conservative mind John Gray, New Statesman
- Europe, not America, is home to the free market Thomas Philippon, the Atlantic
Nightcap
- Argentine Nazi finds are fakes Glüsing & Wiegrefe, Spiegel
- China’s looming class struggle Joel Kotkin, Quillette
- The real costs of the war in Afghanistan Adam Wunische, New Republic
- Progressive purity tests and Supreme Court wish lists Damon Root, Reason
Nightcap
- Ottoman cosmopolitanism Ussama Makdisi, Aeon
- American racism Coleman Hughes, City Journal
- WTO arrogance John Quiggan, the Conversation
- Chinese Antarctica David Fishman, Lawfare
Nightcap
- How American anthropology redefined humanity Louis Menand, New Yorker
- China’s new Great Wall rises in the heart of Europe Katsuji Nakazawa, Asian Nikkei Review
- Chile: neoliberalism’s poster boy falls from grace Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Turkey rejects German-NATO plan, cozies up to Russia Laura Kayali, Politico
Nightcap
- Second-hand: the new global garage sale Susan Blumberg-Kason, Asian Review of Books
- Learning to love America Jacques Delacroix, NOL
- “Why I don’t trust the police” Michelangelo Landgrave, NOL
- Chicago cops Paul Buhle, Counterpunch
Nightcap
- John Mbiti (Kenyan Anglican) is dead Richard Sandomir, New York Times
- The long history of eco-pessimism Desrochers & Szurmak, spiked!
- An early case for reparations Eric Herschthal, New Republic
- What the 1956 Uprising says about Hungary today KB Vlahos, American Conservative
Nightcap
- Who betrayed Syria’s Kurds? Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor
- How the Physiocrats confronted France’s empire (Smithian-Misesian-Hayekian federation) Pernille Røge, Age of Revolutions
- Strange respect for central banks Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- This is just the beginning of Brexit Tom McTague, the Atlantic
Nightcap
- Making Canada great for the first time Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Detoxifying Brexit Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- What’s driving protests around the world? Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg
- “There’s no telling what’s next” Conor Friedersdorf, the Atlantic
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