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“the term ‘hippie trail’ began to circulate in the late 1960s: it referred principally to the long route from London (or sometimes Amsterdam) to Katmandu.” | The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience
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Flags, Chinese Pirates, and the American Navy | Naval power and trade
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Xi Jinping is looking more and more like Mao | The legacy of autocratic rule in China
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that time when North Korea saved Benin from a coup led by mercenaries | The re-privatization of security
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how Brexit has reopened old Irish wounds | Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
New Statesman
BC’s weekend reads
- Holy shit! (great news)
- Hayek’s rapid rise to stardom | misunderstanding Hayek
- great write-up on Catalonia | a philosophical case for secession
- if colonialism was the apocalypse, what comes next? | should UNM replace its seal?
- do trees fall in cyberspace? | how to use Facebook better
- a pretty shallow deep throat | vulvæ in pornography and culture
