- The day MIT won the Harvard-Yale game Kyle Bonagura, ESPN
- The short, brutish career of the Lion of Punjab Robert Carver, Spectator
- The idea of a borderless world Achille Mbembe, Africa is a Country
- Organised crime and oligarchy in Putin’s Russia Louise Shelley, War on the Rocks
Links
Nightcap
- Knowledge gave rise to, and empowered, the State Peter Burke, History Today
- Why not a Palestinian Singapore? Michel Kochin, Claremont Review of Books
- Jacques Derrida and the problems of presence Derek Attridge, Footnotes to Plato
- An argument against world government Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
NOL’s newest feature: the Longform Essays
I want to quickly direct your attention to NOL‘s newest feature, the Longform Essays. In them you will find all of the n-part series that the Notewriters have done over the years, but they’ve been put together (by yours truly) into one long essay, for your convenience.
It’s still a work in progress. Jacques’ essays are done. Mary’s four-part essay on The State and education is finished, too. I am slowly, but surely, working on Barry’s and Rick’s essays.
Enjoy!
Nightcap
- Why the left needs “bottom” Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- How Adam Smith proposed to have his cake and eat it too Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- Can relationship anarchy create a world without heartbreak? Sophie Hemery, Aeon
- The Lies We Were Told Simon Wren-Lewis, Mainly Macro
RCH: Vietnam War armistice, Southeast Asian kingdoms, and abolitionism in America
I’ve been behind on links to my RealClearHistory columns. So, without further adieu:
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Nightcap
- The weaponization of Milton Friedman Shikha Dalmia, the Week
- Social media lessons Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- Seneca on ‘mercy’ and ‘anger’ Barry Stocker, NOL
- Wisdom from Armen Alchian David Henderson, EconLog
Nightcap
- Checks and Balances Jonathan Adler, Volokh Conspiracy
- Trump’s relationship with Fox News starts to show cracks Rebecca Morin, Politico
- Italy versus the EU (again) Alberto Mingardi, EconLog
- How technology and masturbation tamed the sexual revolution Ross Douthat, New York Times
Nightcap
- Plot 6, Row C, Grave 15 (the First World War) Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of Books
- Toyi-toyi Melissa Twigg, BBC
- Administrative Law Is Bunk. We Need a Bundesverwaltungsgericht Michael Greve, Liberty Forum
- Beer, and economic determinism Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
Nightcap
- Armistice Day John Quiggin, Crooked Timber
- The Second Hundred Years’ War Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon
- When the World Tried to Outlaw War Stephen Wertheim, the Nation
- Blood, Oil, and Citizenship Kenan Malik, Guardian
Afternoon Tea: “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War”
This cross-border conversation had a broad and tragic context. In the early 1830s, following what for most had been nearly two generations of imperfect peace, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, and several different tribes of Apaches dramatically increased their attacks upon northern Mexican settlements. While contexts and motivations varied widely, most of the escalating violence reflected Mexico’s declining military and diplomatic capabilities, as well as burgeoning markets for stolen livestock and captives. Indian men raided Mexican ranches, haciendas, and towns, killing or capturing the people they found there, and stealing or destroying animals and other property. When able, Mexicans responded by attacking their enemies with comparable cruelty and avarice. Raids expanded, breeding reprisals and deepening enmities, until the searing violence touched all or parts of nine states.
This is from Brian DeLay, a historian at Cal-Berkeley. Here is a link.
Nightcap
- On the inexhaustible desire to keep talking about Marx Jonathan Wolff, Times Literary Supplement
- The promise of polarization Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic
- Anglo-Saxon England was more cosmopolitan than you think Rhiannon Curry, 1843
- DC unfriends Silicon Valley Declan McCullagh, Reason
Nightcap
- How did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view? Jo Guldi, Aeon
- Third World Burkeans Rod Dreher, American Conservative
- Enemy of The People Pierre Lemieux, EconLog
- Why wasn’t there a Marshall Plan for China? Roderick MacFarquhar, ChinaFile
Nightcap
- Mia Love, Trump, and abortion Rachael Larimore, Weekly Standard
- Presidents and the Press — A Brief Modern History Rick Brownell, Medium
- The gatekeeper of Israeli democracy and rule of law Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor
- Contrarians in public life Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
Afternoon Tea: “‘Chief Princes and Owners of All’: Native American Appeals to the Crown in the Early Modern British Atlantic”
This paper uncovers these indigenous norms by looking at a little-studied legal genre: the appeals made by Native Americans to the British Crown in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These appeals show that they were aware of (and able to exploit) the complicated politics of the British Atlantic world for their own ends, turning the Crown against the settlers in ways they hoped would preserve their rights, and in the process becoming trans-Atlantic political actors. Focusing on three such appeals – the Narragansetts’ in the mid-seventeenth-century; the Mohegans’ which spanned the first three quarters of the eighteenth; and the Mashpee’s on the eve of the American Revolution – this paper explores the way that these Native peoples in eastern North America were able to resist the depredations of the settlers by appealing to royal authority, in the process articulating a powerful conception of their legal status in a world transformed by the arrival of the English. In doing so, it brings an indigenous voice to the debates about the legalities of empire in the early modern Atlantic world.
This is from Craig Yirush, a historian at UCLA. Here is a link.
Nightcap
- The Statue of Liberty is a deeply sinister icon Stephen Bayley, Spectator
- From socialist to left-liberal to neoconservative hawk David Mikics, Literary Review
- Populism in Europe: democracy is to blame, so what is to be done? Philip Manow, Eurozine
- When Medicaid expands, more people vote Margot Sanger-Katz, the Upshot
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