Some Monday Links

Why the Nineties rocked (UnHerd)

AV Dicey as Legal Theorist (The Modern Law Review)

Milton Friedman quoted Dicey here, so I was about to look him up, someday.

Texas Town Shuts Down Her Home Day Care After Nearby Golfers Complain the Kids Were Making Too Much Noise (Reason)

A twisted adaptation of the classic example of economic externalities: Golf club instead of serene houses, home day care in the place of noisy industrial unit.

Sumo Wrestlers In Mid-Air, A Day Of the Dead Icon, And Other Winning World Photos (Hyperallergic)

Nightcap

  1. Attention, fashion, and false consensus Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling
  2. In praise of negativity Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
  3. My only complaint: this should be anti-Communist Party rather than anti-China Shashank Bengali, LA Times
  4. The Belt and Road Initiative as an anti-imperialist discourse (pdf) Ying-Kit Chan, CJAS

Around the Web

  1. The Decline and Fall of France
  2. Rooked: The evolution of cheating in chess
  3. The decline of Europe’s military might
  4. Bodies in the desert
  5. Is antisemitism back in Europe? Did it really ever leave?
  6. The superiority of democracy over dictatorship is no reason to ignore the problem of political ignorance
  7. Why did men stop wearing high heels?