- India blasts off for the moon Jen Kirby, Vox
- South Korea’s first strongman Rob York, War on the Rocks
- The fourth state of water Marc Henry, Inference
- New left economics and the capitalist system Andy Beckett, Guardian
Links
Nightcap
- Less visible systems of murder Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- No. Belle Warring, Crooked Timber
- Finally, air is for sale Oliver Wainwright, Guardian
- Martian civilization Nick Nielsen, Centauri Dreams
Nightcap
- Goldbugs for Trump Paul Krugman, New York Times
- The day the Swedes forget individualism Derrier & Savage, BBC
- Arnold Kling is correct about Will Wilkinson askblog
- A history of the German people William Hay, Law & Liberty
Nightcap
- A German history of the Balkans Tony Barber, Financial Times
- A Brazilian history of the Atlantic slave trade Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Not Even Past
- A conservative history of America at its peak Ross Douthat, New York Times
- The emotional lives of others Andrew Beatty, Aeon
Nightcap
- Movers and stayers (immigration) John Quiggin, Crooked Timber
- Bryan Caplan steps out of his bubble (and away from libertarian philistinism) EconLog
- Edmund Burke and the idea of national conservatism Yuval Levin, Law & Liberty
- “Never give a cunt a chance to be a cunt.” (Labour’s antisemitism) Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
Nightcap
- Can Ottoman nostalgia be a good thing? Peter Gordon, Asian Review of Books
- Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism Barry Stocker, NOL
- What is global history? One good answer (and one not so good answer) Krishan Kumar, Times Literary Supplement
- The world without the moon Caleb Scharf, Life, Unbounded
Nightcap
- Poetic justice with Donald Trump Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- Love it or leave it: exceptionalism for dummies Ross Douthat, New York Times
- How not to be an arrogant prat Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Rent-seeking during the slave trade Jose Corpuz, The Long Run
Nightcap
- On gratitude and immigration Charles Cooke, National Review
- The myth of the welfare queen Bryce Covert, New Republic
- “Why did the Department of Justice cut such a deal?” Ken White, the Atlantic
- When the sun never set Michael Auslin, Claremont Review of Books
Nightcap
- The Dutch-Norwegian oil boom town nobody has heard of Matthew Birkhold, Public Domain Review
- A 19th century “ice map” from the American northeast Rebecca Onion, the Vault
- 20th century Soviet hipsters still went to Siberia James Womack, Los Angeles Review of Books
- “In reaction to the neoliberal turn of the Red-Green government…” Adam Tooze, London Review of Books
Nightcap
- How things fell apart in 20th century Germany Adam Tooze, Financial Times
- “The world was just an aggregation of nation-states” Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Godspeed Justin Raimondo, You Brilliant Son of a Bitch Nicky Reid, Counterpunch
- “The problem is that our own agency is so precious to us” Caleb Scharf, Life Unbounded
Nightcap
- Buddhist terrorists and the Zen way of war Brian Victoria, Aeon
- Faith and empire: a realistic view of Tibetan Buddhism Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books
- A history of Soviet Atheism Elena Leontjeva, Law & Liberty
- “It’s now Raimondo’s world, and he’s not living in it” Curt Mills, Spectator USA
Nightcap
- Murray Rothbard on reparations for slavery Jeff Deist, Power & Market
- Outstanding analysis of Israeli politics Michael Koplow, Ottomans & Zionists
- “My book was arrested but I am free” Victor Sebestyen, New Statesman
- Breakfast has resisted globalization, until now Josie Delap, 1843
Nightcap
- “Buddhists have entered the era of militant tribalism” Hannah Beech, New York Times
- The German problem Samuel Goldman, Modern Age
- The Soviet century Aaron Smith, Harper’s
- Fully automated luxury communism Kristian Niemietz, Quillette
Nightcap
- Liberalism misunderstood Peter Boettke, Coordination Problem
- The way of the gun John Lott, Claremont Review of Books
- Homo Appiens and free speech Arnold Kling, askblog
- David Remnick interviews AOC for the New Yorker
Nightcap
- The future of God in 1943 Tim Stanley, History Today
- Against the old clichés, Anne Applebaum, New Criterion
- French colonialism lives on in Africa Thomas Fazi, spiked
- A free-market gold standard? George Selgin, Alt-M
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