- Eurocentric cosmopolitanism Peter Ramsay, Northern Star
- Roman Abramovich art collection revealed Jonathan Jones, Guardian
- How Africans wrote their own history Isaac Samuel, AHE
- The two-parent advantage W Bradford Wilcox, City Journal
oligarchy
Nightcap
- The colonial contradictions of Albert Camus Oliver Gloag, Jacobin
- The making of the modern Right (oligarch’s revenge) Manisha Sinha, Nation
- On being eaten Lesley Evans Ogden, Aeon
- Eternal hospital Hao Jingfang, Noema
Nightcap
- The oligarch threat Tamsin Shaw, New York Review of Books
- Vasily Grossman’s lost epic Sophie Pinkham, New Republic
- It’s time for Germany to step up Mathieu von Rohr, Spiegel
- How slavery shaped American capitalism John Clegg, Jacobin
Nightcap
- One of 2018’s best essays about Putin’s Russia Cathy Young, Reason
- How the Left abandoned the working class Simon Wren-Lewis, mainly macro
- A new (old) political theory about the American Civil War Allen Guelzo, Claremont Review of Books
- A Danish Tolstoy? Morten Høi Jensen, New York Review of Books