- Beyond the ideological lie: The revolution of 1989 thirty years later Daniel Mahoney, Law & Liberty
- Cheer the fall of the Wall Bryan Caplan, EconLog
- Don’t venerate the nation-state Dalibor Rohac, Standpoint
- Finally, a good idea comes out of Washington Jack Crowe, National Review
Links
Nightcap
- Taking cross cultural psychology seriously Tanner Greer, Scholar’s Stage
- East Germans, bio-Germans, passport Germans Katrin Benhold, New York Times
- The Texas-Latvia connection Graeme Wood, the Atlantic
- “Scholar reads obituary over coffee” Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
Nightcap
- Explaining the Japan-Korea dispute Matsuda & Park, War on the Rocks
- Mosul and the fall of the Caliphate David French, National Review
- Technology and madness in computational capitalism Leonid Bilmes, Los Angeles Review of Books
- Indian nations and colonial ambitions along the Mississippi Jacob Lee, Origins
Nightcap
- History is, to some extent, inescapably nationalist Colin Kidd, History Today
- In praise of Jewish achievement Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
- In defense of NIMBYism Addison del Mastro, American Conservative
- The way life comes at us Paul Griffiths, Commonweal
Nightcap
- 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
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
