- A very Swedish sort of failure Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
- “Sraffa was changing the nature of the inquiry” Ajit Sinha, INET
- The global cost of lockdown Bhattacharya & Packalen, Spectator
- How ’bout some art history of modern Japan? Audrey Clark, S-USIH
Swedish culture
Nightcap
- 1979 and the rise of “Global Jihad” James Barnett, American Interest
- Why is Sweden such an outlier? Benjamin Davies, Times Literary Supplement
- A sign of things to come? (Taiwan) Nick Aspinwall, the Diplomat
- Taking a piss on libertarianism’s grave Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
Nightcap
- Goldbugs for Trump Paul Krugman, New York Times
- The day the Swedes forget individualism Derrier & Savage, BBC
- Arnold Kling is correct about Will Wilkinson askblog
- A history of the German people William Hay, Law & Liberty