- Soviet champagne, for the working man Jessica Gingrich, Atlas Obscura
- Radio and modern state power in Angola Jesse Bucher, Africa is a Country
- East and West Germany in 2019 Sumi Somaskanda, New Statesman
- The deeply dedicated American state Michael McFaul, New York Review of Books
East Germany
Around the Web
- How to use sex like a Russian spy
- East German socialists created their own 10 Commandments
- Chinese tourists warned by Beijing not to urinate in public (put on your anthropologist cap)
- Ralph Raico on Wilhelm von Humboldt, Germany’s most infamous classical liberal
- The persistent appetite for orthodoxy; one of the best indictments of collectivism I’ve read in a while