- What does a post-Putin Russia look like? Jakub Grygiel, American Interest
- A primer on China’s “People’s Armed Police” Joel Wuthnow, War on the Rocks
- How can people be smart consumers, but dumb voters? Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- The imperial myths driving Brexit Alex von Tunzelmann, the Atlantic
Links
Nightcap
- From Lahore to Lancashire: Untold stories from imperial Britain John Keay, Literary Review
- The younger sons in Jane Austen’s England had to work Richard Francis, Spectator
- How soon we forget Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Gin, sex, malaria, and American anthropology Charles King, Chronicle Review
Nightcap
- The concept of “myth” in postwar Germany Tae-Yeoun Keum, JHIBlog
- Notes on Warsaw (good comments, too) Tyler Cowen, MarginalRevolution
- What if everyone’s wrong about China? Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg
- Film criticism’s boring left turn Steven Volynets, Quillette
Nightcap
- How to flip a yield curve George Selgin, Alt-M
- How ergodicity reimagines economics Mark Buchanan, Aeon
- How to think better about debt Lou Brown, Crooked Timber
- Why even have kids in today’s world? Bryan Caplan, EconLog
Nightcap
- Migration in Europe? Where to start! Kapka Kassabova, Spectator
- Aristotle’s definition of citizenship John Hungerford, Law & Liberty
- Michelangelo’s definition of citizenship M Landgrave, NOL
- What can the Catholic Church do? John Cornwell, Financial Times
Nightcap
- The dubious logic of commodification Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- The miracle of General Equilibrium Philip Pilkington, Inference
- Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism,” in Barcelona Deborah Levy, New Statesman
- Magical maps and island utopias Rachel Cordasco, Los Angeles Review of Books
Nightcap
- Kashmir: a tale of two mothers Swaran Singh, spiked
- Joe Biden on the bus Scott McConnell, Modern Age
- Assimilation is hard Nicole-Ann Lobo, Commonweal
- The market for neighborhoods Salim Furth, National Affairs
Nightcap
- Lessons from the East Asian economic miracle Byrne Hobart, Medium
- Confessions of an Islamic State fighter Alexander Clapp, 1843
- Russia’s vanishing summerfolk Christophe Trontin, LMD
- Too cool for Woodstock Rick Brownell, Medium
Nightcap
- Yield-curve inversion and the agony of central banking David Glasner, Uneasy Money
- Ossian’s Ride: wild Irish science fiction I’d never heard of Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
- The pioneers of cultural relativism did a lot of good, too Patrick Iber, New Republic
- Umberto Eco: Champion of popular culture Paul Cobley, Footnotes to Plato
Nightcap
- The moral economists and the critique of capitalism Katrina Navickas, London Review of Books
- Can you step in the same river twice? David Egan, Aeon
- Don’t forget about the indigenous populations Vincent Geloso, NOL
- Anthropology and the problem of the archives Morgan Greeen, JHIBlog
Nightcap
- Is paternalism about status? Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- Is academia corrupt or just prone to fads? Jacques Delacroix, NOL
- The trade deal fetish Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- The rise of kinetic diplomacy Monica Toft, War on the Rocks
Nightcap
- FDR’s New Deal state and segregation Colin Gordon, Jacobin
- Europe’s Left is rethinking multiculturalism Joel Kotkin, City Journal
- The hardest problem in public policy Scott Sumner, EconLog
- The last great American novelist (Morrison) Ross Douthat, New York Times
Nightcap
- Eastern Europe’s Orthodox Christians are now loathe to condemn communism Bruce Clark, Erasmus
- Claude Lévi-Strauss and the French aversion to ethnographic fieldwork Patrick Wilckin, Times Literary Supplement
- Sainthood in the Buddhist and Hindu realms of yesteryear John Butler, Asian Review of Books
- The crisis in American public education Rafi Eis, National Affairs
Nightcap
- The economics of bubbles Goldfarb & Kirsch, Aeon
- Blind faith in government Scott Sumner, EconLog
- “Racist” is a tough little word John McWhorter, Atlantic
- The story of Plessy v. Ferguson Sean Scott, Law & Liberty
Nightcap
- Assessing Sotomayor’s first ten years with SCOTUS Ilya Somin, Volokh Conspiracy
- A case of mistaken identity Peter Miller, Views of the Kamakura
- Spain’s democratic decline Raphael Garcia, Inkstick
- An homage to Charlemagne David Crane, Spectator
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