- 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
British Empire
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
Nightcap
- From Lahore to Lancashire: Untold stories from imperial Britain John Keay, Literary Review
- The younger sons in Jane Austen’s England had to work Richard Francis, Spectator
- How soon we forget Scott Sumner, EconLog
- Gin, sex, malaria, and American anthropology Charles King, Chronicle Review
Nightcap
- If Mexicans and Americans could cross the border freely (scroll down just a tad) Jacques Delacroix, Independent Review
- There is a trade-off between citizenship and migration Branko Milanovic, Financial Times
- How the British reshaped India’s caste system Sanjoy Chakravorty, BBC
- Why is the West so suspicious of Russia? Rodric Braithwaite, History Today
