- How bad was the British Empire? Katrina Gulliver, Spectator
- Extractive colonial economies Marty, et al, VoxEU
- The strange tale of Japan’s infamous novelist Thomas Graham, BBC
- Cosmopolitanism and internationalism Timothy Brennan, New Left Review
British Empire
Nightcap
- Fighting famine in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands Ian Buruma, TLS
- The settler logics of (outer) space Deondre Smiles, Society + Space
- The corporate origins of judicial review (pdf) Mary Sarah Bilder, YLJ
- Misremembering the British Empire Maya Jasanoff, New Yorker
Nightcap
- ‘No coloureds, no Irish, no dogs’ Angelique Richardson, LRB
- The autonomous republic of Nakhchivan David McArdle, BBC
- Reading the Booker Prize finalists Paul Griffiths, Commonweal
- Joe Biden hates Clarence Thomas Damon Root, Reason
Nightcap
- Vienna: city of paradox Alexander Carpenter, Aeon
- The Vienna of Ludwig von Mises Schulak & Unterköfler, Mises Daily
- Empire of Abstraction: British anthropology Nile Davies, JHIblog
- Wealth and the life cycle Eric Crampton, Offsetting Behaviour
Nightcap
- Deepak Lal: Rest In Peace Kapil Komireddi, The Critic
- Why the French Revolution was so important Robert Blackman, Age of Revolutions
- The limits of fiction Katherine Voyles, War on the Rocks
- “Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism” Stuart Jeffries, Financial Times
Nightcap
- Collecting the dreams of imperial subjects Erik Linstrum, Aeon
- On NATO’s open door policy Emma Ashford, War on the Rocks
- Stalin’s Danish mystery Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, History Today
- Taleb’s distinction between “complicated” and “complex” Mark Cancellieri, askblog (comments)
Nightcap
- Hayek’s rapid rise to stardom David Glasner, Uneasy Money
- Why I am not a natural lawyer FH Buckley, Law & Liberty
- British Imperial Federation (pdf) William Smith, Political Science Quarterly
- The people who profited from the Trail of Tears Caitlin Fitz, Atlantic
Nightcap
- Our cities, our selves Jason Jewell, Modern Age
- Waiting for the wave to break Chris Bertram, Crooked Timber
- Midcentury life in the Soviet Union Alex Halberstadt, Literary Hub
- Britain’s colonial crimes and trade Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times
Nightcap
- Let’s have more audience-free debates Fred Kaplan, Slate
- Why the Natives usually sided with the British Jeffrey Ostler, Atlantic
- The case for shortening medical education Jain & Orr, Niskanen
- What’s buried in the coronavirus relief package? Billy Binion, Reason
Nightcap
- The long Ethiopian century James Barnett, American Interest
- Indian sovereignty and King William’s War Jenny Pulsipher, New England Quarterly
- The Lippman Gap David Hendrickson, IR and All That
- How Coptic Christianity is finding refuge in America Casey Chalk, American Conservative
Nightcap
- Liberating the precolonial history of Africa Toby Green, Aeon
- The real Gujarat Model is not about economic growth Shikha Dalmia, the Week
- The Methodist split everybody should be talking about Todd Webb, Age of Revolutions
- The economic policy of Elizabeth Warren Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Nightcap
- The struggle between faith and reason Stephanie Slade, Modern Age
- Hippie Inc: How the counterculture went corporate Nat Segnit, 1843
- Capitalism uses hatred; that’s good (link fixed) Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- The forgotten defense of the Falklands Patrick Crozier, Samizdata
Nightcap
- “To speak on everything in the world, including everyone’s elections” Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias
- Foucault on the courageous practice of speaking truth to power Deborah Clark, Footnotes to Plato
- The idea of Global Britain ignores reality (and an imperial past) Robert Saunders, New Statesman
- “No nation in Europe today is as good at self-deprecation as the Slovaks” Donald Rayfield, Literary Review
Nightcap
- The ongoing chess match between Iran and Israel Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor
- Britain’s not-so-evil empire Daniel Bring, Modern Age
- “The point is not to win, though.” Rick Repetti, Quillette
- Exposing capitalism’s blind domination Lambert Zuidervaart, Footnotes to Plato
Nightcap
- Criticizing libertarianism (meh; racism is a much bigger problem) Arnold Kling, askblog
- The Black Boys’ rebellion Michael Taube, Claremont Review of Books
- Rudyard Kipling’s American years John Butler, Asian Review of Books
- The strangling of European democracy Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked
