- oil and Kurdistan
- after Raqqa, Iraq’s army turns on Kurdistan
- “There has been a common and unfortunate tendency among many analysts and policy makers to underestimate the strength of Iraqi nationalism”
- separatist movements in Europe don’t actually want independence
- GREAT topic, but poor methodology, poor theory, poor use of data, and bad faith
- meh (try this book review instead)
- Law without the State [pdf]
New York Review of Books
BC’s weekend reads
- Our own Edwin van de Haar being interviewed about Degrees of Freedom (audio interview)
- Does Gun Control Work? Ben Carson Says Yes. ADL Says No but Yes
- The Vanishing Europe of Jürgen Habermas
- Leviathan (movie review)
- Thinking Anew | What, precisely, changed in the 18th century? (book review)
- This Is What Russia REALLY Fears in Syria
Around the Web
- Contrary to popular myth, Democrats are just as ideological as Republicans, and Republicans are just as group-centric Democrats
- The Rule of Karlowitz: Fiscal Change and Institutional Persistence (pdf)
- The Privilege of Checking White Privilege
- The Wealth of Subnations: Geography, Institutions, and Within-Country Development (pdf) (h/t Adrián)
- Shakespeare in Tehran “I also noticed among the men a few who stood apart and did not seem to be either students or faculty. It was not difficult to imagine who these might be.”
- The new economic history of Africa (pdf)
Notes On Liberty 