- More death: Croatian literature Angela Woodward, LARB
- Immigrants as scapegoats Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- On the number and size of nations Alesina & Spolaore, NBER
- Lots of respectable people embraced eugenics Alan Judd, Spectator
echo chambers
Nightcap
- Artists for hire: the forgotten masters of the British East India Company Peter Parker (wait, what?), Literary Review
- Lenin, capitalists, rope Scott Sumner, MoneyIllusion
- Barriers to cognitive diversity Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- How the Saudi-Iran rivalry has unravelled the Middle East Toby Matthiesen, Financial Times
Nightcap
- Austrian lessons for American security William Anthony Hay, Modern Age
- Why Denmark is not part of the Eurozone Krzysztof Mroziewicz, Power & Market
- Seeing like a finite state machine Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
- Cheap laughs Christopher Hitchens, the Atlantic
Nightcap
- Ownership and productivity in a capitalist society Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
- Provincial cosmopolitanism Nikki Usher, Cato Unbound
- China’s “bottom-up” cities (best essay on China this year) Bruno Maçães, City Journal
- The Democrats and their favorite mouthpiece Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
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