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  1. The American empire in retreat? Ross Douthat, NYT
  2. An almost-country in the desert Armin Rosen, Tablet

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  1. Do Korean “K-dramas” signal the weakening of America’s global cultural dominance? Ronald Dworkin, Law & Liberty
  2. The Taliban’s special units leading the fight against Islamic State Fazelminallah Qazizai, Newlines
  3. Being pro-choice Andrew J Cohen, Radical Classical Liberals
  4. The promise, and peril, of public-facing scholarship Paul Musgrave, Duck of Minerva

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  1. Good piece on British imperial culture Ronjaunee Chatterjee, LARB
  2. How the Taliban won in Afghanistan Alec Worsnop, WOTR
  3. History’s glory, restored Spencer Klavan, Law & Liberty

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  1. Hayekian evolutionism and omitting the nation-state Scott Boykin, JLS
  2. Progress by consent: Adam Smith was right all along William Easterly, RAE
  3. Greater Britain or Greater Synthesis? Imperial debates (pdf) Daniel Deudney, RIS
  4. Bloodletting Whitney Curry Wimbish, North American Review

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  1. How the Afghanistan War really started Robert Wright, Nonzero
  2. The Fed’s exit strategy (in 2009) Robert Aro, Power & Market
  3. Austrian Economics for the lower classes Weiss & Nelson, L&L
  4. On liberalism’s peaceful global order Eric Schliesser, D&I

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  1. How to leave philosophy Greg Stoutenburg, Philosopher’s Cocoon
  2. Will bourgeoisie ever rule the Chinese state? Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality 3.0
  3. Adam Smith’s three theories of the British Empire Barry Weingast, SSRN
  4. Desert and self-defense Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth

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  1. Interview with Robert Peters (democratic socialist in Chicago)

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  1. Good essay on addiction Judith Grisel, Aeon
  2. The last of the fucked-up Mohicans Max Norman, LARB
  3. Adam Smith’s colonial politics Donald Winch, Cahiers d’économie politique
  4. Unsolved mysteries Daniel Barnum, Bat City Review

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  1. Afghanistan is where ideologies go to die Sumantra Maitra, Critic
  2. Twilight of the Satyrs Charlotte Allen, Quillette
  3. The Chinese mirror Pierre Lemieux, EconLog
  4. The Tang dynasty died in Afghanistan, too Chan Kung, Diplomat

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  1. Will Afghanistan hurt US credibility? Don Casler, Duck of Minerva
  2. When did we all become women? Kathryn Robinson, Seattle Weekly (h/t Tyler Cowen)

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  1. International arbitration, 17th century style Eric Schliesser, Digressions & Impressions
  2. We are no longer a serious people Antonio Martínez, Pull Request
  3. Networked planetary governance Anne-Marie Slaughter (interview), Noema
  4. 5 O’Clockface Sharon Olds, Threepenny Review

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  1. Why Angela Merkel has lasted so long Wolfgang Streeck, spiked!
  2. United States of Greater Austria Wikipedia
  3. Afghanistan and liberal hegemony Lawrence Freedman, New Statesman
  4. Diary of the guy who drove the Trojan Horse back from Troy James Folta, New Yorker

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  1. Afghanistan has too much sovereignty Fernando Teson, RCL
  2. Pakistan’s masochistic support for the Taliban Kunwar Shahid, Spectator
  3. Has capitalism run out of steam? Dominique Routhier, LARB
  4. Here come the robot nurses Anna Guevarra, Boston Review

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  1. Is Norway the new East India Company? Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
  2. A garden tree Eric Schliesser, Digressions & Impressions
  3. Indian migration and empire Bridget Anderson, Disorder of Things
  4. A “conservative” case for reparations Jacques Delacroix, NOL

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  1. All-inclusive magic mushroom retreats Max Berlinger, Bloomberg
  2. What it is to be “young” or “youthful” Eric Schliesser, Digressions & Impressions
  3. Indian migration and empire Luke de Noronha, Disorder of Things
  4. Why not rectify past injustices? Bryan Caplan, EconLog