- Hiroshima in the digital age Spencer Cohen, Los Angeles Review of Books
- The remaining goodness of America Tian Atlas Xu, New Rambler Review
- Utah’s exceptionalism Natalie Gochnour, American Affairs
- Do we send the goo? Betül Kaçar, Aeon
astrobiology
Nightcap
- Soviet science fiction magazines Winnie Lee, Atlas Obscura
- The truth about Area 51 Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics
- If aliens contact us, we won’t understand William Herkewitz, Astronomy
- Adapted aliens Robin Hanson, Cato Unbound
Nightcap
- The lowest bid universe Caleb Scharf, Life, Unbounded
- How to govern locally from the left Daniel Jadue, Jacobin
- Changing places with Europe Scott Sumner, EconLog
- South Africa heads to the polls Michael Onderco, War on the Rocks
Nightcap
- Why weakly enforced rules? Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- What’s changed since Salman Rushdie’s notorious novel? Bruce Fudge, Aeon
- Spacefaring civilization Nick Nielsen, Grand Strategy Annex
- Is the universe pro-life? Bobby Azarian, Quartz
Nightcap
- A Mexican perspective on NAFTA Roberto Salinas-Leon, Law & Liberty
- Prosperity, the periphery, and the future of France Andrew Hussey, Literary Review
- The Indian Ocean slave trade Geoffrey Clarfield, Quillette
- The meaning of the exoplanet revolution Caleb Scharf, Aeon
Nightcap
- UCLA and its new ideological litmus tests Erik Gilbert, Quillette
- Sovereignty and the Latin American experience Greg Grandin, London Review of Books
- How good is television as a medium of history? Castor, et al, History Today
- SETI’s charismatic megafauna Nick Nielsen, Centauri Dreams
Nightcap
- U.S. environmentalism is a success story Patrick Allitt, Liberty Forum
- Don’t blame Karl Marx for “Cultural Marxism” Brian Doherty, Reason
- Texas and the white-washing of the American Revolution Michael Oberg, Age of Revolutions
- How would we recognize an alien if we saw one? Samuel Levin, Aeon
Nightcap
- Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain Nicola Clarke, History Today
- After Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses Kenan Malik, Guardian
- The labor theory of value, explained Branko Milanovic, globalinequality
- The closest exoplanet to Earth could be “highly habitable” Adam Mann, Scientific American
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