Nightcap

  1. Italy’s waltz with China is business as usual Dario Cristiani, War on the Rocks
  2. Italy and the Belt and Road Initiative Tridivesh Singh Maini, NOL
  3. China’s liberals and benevolent hegemony Pär Nyrén, the Diplomat
  4. The dictatorship of the present John Michael Colón, The Point

Nightcap

  1. Justin Raimondo, RIP (1951 – 2019)
  2. Whatever happened to Max Boot? Gene Healy, Modern Age
  3. Why Mick Cronin chose UCLA over legacy Myron Medcalf, ESPN
  4. Shine, Perishing Republic Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com

Nightcap

  1. The US does not have a hukou system. We have zoning. And border controls.” Scott Sumner, EconLog
  2. We prefer bad decisions taken by humans to good ones taken by machines.” Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  3. How the Fed might more perfectly fulfill its mandate” George Selgin, Alt-M
  4. If I were in charge of Facebook, I would run it very differently.” Arnold Kling, askblog

Nightcap

  1. American debt (to immigrants) Gaiutra Bahadur, New Republic
  2. Why immigrants are superior Jacques Delacroix, NOL
  3. Misadventures of an anthropologist in Indonesia Tim Hannigan, Asian Review of Books
  4. Why books don’t work Andy Matuschak

Nightcap

  1. The Dark Forest theory: why aliens haven’t contacted us yet Scotty Hendricks, Big Think
  2. China’s “Dark Forest” answer to Star Wars optimism Jeremy Hsu, Lovesick Cyborg
  3. On the tradition of “Chinese unity” in geopolitical thought Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
  4. Rice Peter Miller, Views of the Kamakura

Nightcap

  1. Macroeconomics for all times and all places Scott Sumner, EconLog
  2. The recrudescence of zero-sum thinking Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  3. The Machiavelli of Maryland Thomas Meaney, Guardian
  4. From Russian Jew to Soviet literary hero Sheila Fitzpatrick, the Nation

Nightcap

  1. If Mexicans and Americans could cross the border freely (scroll down just a tad) Jacques Delacroix, Independent Review
  2. There is a trade-off between citizenship and migration Branko Milanovic, Financial Times
  3. How the British reshaped India’s caste system Sanjoy Chakravorty, BBC
  4. Why is the West so suspicious of Russia? Rodric Braithwaite, History Today

Nightcap

  1. Today’s most pressing questions cannot be depoliticized Aaron Timms, New Republic
  2. Views of evil: Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings Bryan Weynand, Gospel Coalition
  3. What America doesn’t get about dictatorships Raul Gallegos, New York Times
  4. Lost wallets, around the globe Cohn, Maréchal, Tannenbaum, Zünd, Science

Nightcap

  1. Why should we care about landing on the moon…50 years ago? Jill Lepore, New York Times
  2. U.S. escalates cyber attacks on Russia’s power grid Perlroth & Sanger, New York Times
  3. Stupid humans (is there hope?) Caleb Scharf, Scientific American
  4. The decline and rise of poverty in America Bryan Caplan, EconLog

Nightcap

  1. Who owns the Crusades? Josephine Livingstone, New Republic
  2. Why the Crusades remain fascinating Jonathan Sumption, Spectator
  3. The forgotten battle of World War II Francis Sempa, Asian Review of Books
  4. The ironic feudalist (Japanese reaction) Jeremy Woolsey, Aeon

Nightcap

  1. Ominous new from the San Francisco Fed David Henderson, EconLog
  2. Will Libra impinge on monetary policy? Scott Sumner, TheMoneyIllusion
  3. A case for left-wing nationalism Lisa Gaufman, Duck of Minerva
  4. A republic for discussion? Raymond Geuss, the Point

Nightcap

  1. How the Scottish left their mark on China Jessica Hanser, Aeon
  2. Polish military officers in the Katyn Forest Priscilla Jensen, Law & Liberty
  3. In defense of the missionary (style) Marilyn Simon, Quillette
  4. The growing of moss on a dead log Addison Del Mastro, American Conservative

Nightcap

  1. Modern China: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping Connor Gahre, Origins
  2. Modern America: Flirting with isolation Henry Nau, Claremont Review of Books
  3. Modern Britain: Success and failure with inequality Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  4. Can American dads have it all? Ross Douthat, New York Times

Nightcap

  1. Australia’s long-ignored South Asians Alexander Wells, History Today
  2. Three takes on economic inequality Roderick Long, Policy of Truth
  3. Capitalism and its discontents Joseph Stiglitz, Times Literary Supplement
  4. Conservatism imagined Nicholas in Faith, All Along the Watchtower

Nightcap

  1. Keep unions out of grad school Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg
  2. Universal Basic Income, in perspective David Henderson, Defining Ideas
  3. Is America is a violent country? Kieran Healy, Monkey Cage
  4. Who have Americans hated most, historically? RealClearHistory