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December 2019

  1. Nightcap
  2. 2019: Year in Review
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  4. There is no Bloomberg for medicine
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  12. The Real Meaning of Christmas
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  14. Entangling alliances, Donald Trump, and a new libertarian alternative
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  18. Afternoon Tea: Pigeons (1910)
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  22. Sunday Poetry: Rüstow vs. Mises
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  25. Despite pressure from Trump, Iran’s world role will continue to be important
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  27. Scholars and Public Intellectuals: The Bad Old Days Before Blogging
  28. Eye Candy: Most popular porn categories, by country, in 2019
  29. Public libertarian intellectuals
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  32. Confessions of a Fragilista: Talebian Redundancies and Insurance
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  34. Changing the way doctors see data
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  36. Sunday Poetry: Junger’s War Observations
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  38. Psychedelics versus modern philosophy
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  40. Politics according to the Bible
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  44. Afternoon Tea: Pear Tree (1903)
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  47. Sunday Poetry: Camus about Europe
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November 2019

  1. Nightcap
  2. True heroes of capitalism
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  4. Generic Thanksgiving Post
  5. Why some countries are stuck in poverty
  6. Nightcap
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  8. The public intellectuals we don’t deserve
  9. Contempt for capitalism
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  11. Intellectuals You Should Know About
  12. Discovery Processes
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  14. Follow Hong Kong’s district election
  15. Sunday Poetry: Adorno about traffic lights
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  17. A libertarian response to “OK Boomer”
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  24. Hong Kong Police storm Polytechnic University of Hong Kong: a selection of news articles
  25. Sunday Poetry: Rilke’s “Autumn Day”
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  27. 130 years of Republic in Brazil
  28. Rawls, Antigone and the tragic irony of norms
  29. You’re Not Worth My Time
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  31. Madness Entitlement
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  37. Sunday Poetry: Arthur Schnitzler’s “Dream Story”
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  40. Some more borderline fraud from the higher education industry.
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  43. My Startup Experience
  44. Three Short Stories on Housing Economics
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  48. The Myth of the Nazi War Machine
  49. Sunday Poetry: Stefan Zweig’s “Royal Game”
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  52. China’s upcoming troubles: class or nation?
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October 2019

  1. More Arabs in the US? Yes, please!
  2. Nightcap
  3. Be Our Guest: “Liberty, Government, and Technology: 2019”
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  12. The North Syria Debacle as Seen by One Trump Voter
  13. Davies’ “Extreme Economies” – Part 2: Failure
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  15. Rethinking the Yellowbelt: Report Release
  16. Romance Econometrics
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  20. Thinking globally, as a dad, and as a libertarian
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  22. 10 Best American novels of the past half century
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  25. A short note on Ethiopia and the African continent
  26. La Destitution présidentielle aux EU: quelques faits et deux opinions.
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  31. Turkey, Syria, the Kurds, and the American Foreign Policy Establishment
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  33. Wiener Moderne and Austrian Economics – A product of times of turmoil
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  36. Perspective and riches
  37. Joker: an evidence-based criminology review (spoilers)
  38. Davies’ “Extreme Economies” – Part 1: Survival
  39. Be Our Guest: “How to make Brexit Really Worthwhile – Example: Financial Regulation”
  40. Nightcap
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  42. Creativity of Hong Kong protesters: Protest Songs
  43. Nightcap
  44. Where to view live videos on the Hong Kong protests?
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  46. Declaration of the Establishment of the Provisional Government of Hong Kong
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  48. Thoughts on Time from a College Library
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  51. What is clientelism and why we should care about it
  52. The role of religious minorities in combating Islamophobia: The Sikh case
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September 2019

  1. Nightcap
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  3. Global Warming: Take Off My Sweater?
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  5. Musings on opinions: de gustibus non est disputandum
  6. Iran-US tensions: Why Tokyo and New Delhi should arbitrate (But will they?)
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  10. Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?
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  12. There is no such thing as a sunk cost fallacy
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  20. Hyperinflation and trust in Ancient Rome
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  23. Asking for 9/11
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  29. Atomistic? Moi?
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  36. A Small Reason Why I Don’t Want Big Government
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  40. “Return to the Bronze Age… national nudism”

August 2019

  1. Nightcap
  2. The mythology of Lochner v. New York
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  5. Look what just arrived in my hands
  6. Be Our Guest: “Of Monies and Juries and Freedoms”
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  10. Mexican Productivity and Poverty: a Superficial, Street-Level View
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  14. Thoughts on ‘For Method’
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  17. Be Our Guest: “How to make Brexit Really Worthwhile – Example: Regulation dealing with Information Asymmetries”
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  19. Financial History to the Rescue: The Harder Money Wins Out
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  21. What Albert Camus taught us about freedom
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  24. Good books on The Troubles
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  28. Financial History to the Rescue: On Bitcoiners’ Many Troubles
  29. Introducing “Be Our Guest,” a new component of NOL
  30. Nightcap
  31. The Case for Constructivism in IR Pt. 2
  32. Early 20th century socio-economic commentary: history in the making
  33. Is Dominic Cummings a hypocrite, or does the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy just suck?
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  35. Mass shooting in perspective
  36. Hong Kong protests: justified but futile in the end
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  40. Do we want criminals to ‘feel terror at the thought of committing crimes’?
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  42. On Translating Earnings From The Past
  43. More tariffs on Vietnam would be great news for China
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  48. Link: The Most Controversial Tree in the World
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July 2019

  1. Nightcap
  2. One weird old tax could slash wealth inequality (NIMBYs, don’t click!)
  3. “Crisis in the Public Square: A Kuyperian Response”
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  8. From the Comments: Dual loyalties and American hypocrisy
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  20. The long-run risks of Trump’s racism
  21. Against Ideology
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  23. FURTHER CRACKS IN THE GLOBAL WARMING PROPHECY
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  25. Tone deaf Leftists: A Chilean tale
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  30. Introducing: the Federation of Free States, an ongoing thought experiment
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  32. “Ethnic Violence in Africa: Destructive Legacies of Pre-Colonial States”
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  38. Nike’s speech rights?
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  41. The 2020 Dems
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June 2019

  1. On Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, the Libra. What will its consequences be for Bitcoin, blockchain and the financial world?
  2. The Philosophy and Ethics behind Blockchain (smart talk)
  3. Nightcap
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  5. Call for papers – 2020 Politics of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Panel
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  9. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 9); Conclusion: legal-political institutions and systems
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  11. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 8): Inequality before the law, de facto
  12. Nightcap
  13. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 7): The open texture of the words of the law
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  15. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 6): Institutions as algorithms
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  17. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 5): Logical models
  18. Bourgeois IV: The Economics of difference
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  20. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 4); Malthus and Darwin: population analysis and evolution
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  22. Learning Academic English Through Leftist Propaganda
  23. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 3): Evolutionary drift
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  25. A decentralized look at the U.S.-China trade war
  26. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 2): Moral and Politics
  27. Nightcap
  28. The case for Constructivism in IR
  29. “Foucault’s Pendulum”: Social Scholarship, Ideology, and Libertarian Temptations
  30. Institutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 1): Introduction
  31. Nightcap
  32. Elite Anxiety: Paul Collier’s “Future of Capitalism”
  33. Snatching you up (mendicants and Gulags)
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  35. Normal Joe and the 2020 Election
  36. Federation, not unilateralism, ought to be the American Libertarian’s foreign policy
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  38. Jair Bolsonaro: the Devil?
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  40. Back in Brazil: bureaucracy
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  43. For and/or Against Method, initial miscellany
  44. Dunbar’s Number
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  48. Tariffs and Immigration
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  50. Back in Brazil: more impressions
  51. From the Comments: Yes, the EU is, and will continue to be, democratic and voluntary
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  53. Back in Brazil: first impressions
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  55. The Centre Holds: European Union Election
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May 2019

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  4. Will the conservatives usher in a federal Europe?
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  6. Economists, Economic History, and Theory
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  10. History and Philosophy of Science
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  13. “Extreme” abortion laws
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  15. Some lessons from Brazil
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  17. Liberalism & Jewish Emancipation
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  19. Those revenue-raising early central banks
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  23. Bourgeois III: Values in real-life
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  25. How US foreign policy hurts Christians worldwide
  26. Paris Islamophobia, 2019
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  28. Ok, Americans – here is your Eurovision Guide
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  31. “People perish for cold metal”
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  34. Epistemological anarchism to anarchism
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  37. RCH: The strangest riot in American history
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  40. Liberalism in International Relations
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  43. Watson my mind today: culture change
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  45. Theories of International Relations: Realism
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  47. Venezuela, still going down
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April 2019

  1. Nightcap
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  3. A Short Note on Fraudulent Banking
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  10. Two Financial Instruments that made the Modern World
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  17. Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year
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  19. The nonexistent moral decay of the west
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  23. Brazil, 1984
  24. Poverty Under Democratic Socialism — Part III: Is the U.S. Denmark?
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  27. Watson my mind today: labor markets
  28. Poverty Under Democratic Socialism — Part II: Escaping the Padded Cage
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  30. School choice at the Supreme Court
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  32. Let’s Find Out – or: the Power of Reference
  33. Poverty Under Democratic Socialism — Part I: the French Case
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  36. Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution
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  38. Watson my mind today
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  40. Nazism: left or right? (again)
  41. Proposal: Let’s stop calling them “Property Rights”
  42. Old Property
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  45. Conservatives vs Liberals vs Libertarians
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  47. Brazil’s Military Coup, 55 years later
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March 2019

  1. Free Immigration is not a Classical Liberal Right
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  3. The French Have It Better?
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  5. Not all GDP measurement errors are greater than zero!
  6. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 8): Conclusion
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  8. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 7): Breaking the mold
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  10. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 6): Breaking the mold
  11. Mending Wall
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  13. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 5): “Spontaneous” institutions
  14. Bourgeois II: place in the world
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  16. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 4): Institutions and the Rule of Law
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  18. Relicts of the past? The current challenges for diplomacy
  19. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 3): Innovation means creative destruction
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  21. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 2); Institutions: definition and subtypes
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  23. Three Lessons on Institutions and Incentives (Part 1): Introduction
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  25. Michel Temer, Brazil’s former president, sent to jail
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  27. The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism
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  30. The Nonsensical Meaning of Sustainability
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  32. The Admissions Scandal Will Improve Universities
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  34. RCH: 10 most brutal massacres in history
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  36. Why Persecute?
  37. Blockchain Distributed Governance
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  39. Thank you anonymous reviewers
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  42. Britain’s Pornographer and Puritan Coalition
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  44. Italy and the Belt and Road Initiative
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  46. Interwar US inequality data are deeply flawed
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  48. It’s no longer the economy, but we are still stupid
  49. Nightcap
  50. RCH: “10 Worst Space Disasters in History”
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  52. Bolsonaro, Carnaval, Golden Shower, Reason
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  54. Afternoon Tea: Minerva or Pallas Athena (1898)
  55. Nightcap
  56. RCH: The secession of Texas from Mexico
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  58. Afternoon Tea: The Scapegoat (1854)
  59. Further thoughts on the carbon tax.
  60. The Rao Roe Row
  61. Nightcap
  62. The nature of the China-US-Vietnam economic triangle
  63. An optimist turns pessimistic
  64. Nightcap
  65. RCH: Iraq, then and now
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  67. Afternoon Tea: The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834)
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February 2019

  1. Expression at the polls
  2. Nightcap
  3. A short note on India’s air strikes in Pakistan
  4. Afternoon Tea: Diomedes Devoured by his Horses (1866)
  5. Nightcap
  6. Should the US intervene in Venezuela?
  7. Musk in contempt?
  8. Nightcap
  9. Venezuela and the World
  10. Afternoon Tea: Urvashi and Pururavas (unknown)
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  13. Libertarianism and Neoliberalism – A difference that matters?
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  15. From the Comments: who is the conservative or libertarian equivalent of Nancy MacLean?
  16. Afternoon Tea: Ahasver (1910)
  17. Nightcap
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  19. Afternoon Tea: Isaac Newton (1795)
  20. The Paradox of Prediction
  21. Originalism and defamation
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  23. The American objective of isolating Iran continues to be a failure
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  25. Afternoon Tea: Female Organ Player (1885)
  26. Persecution & Toleration
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  28. The Gandalf Test
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  31. Afternoon Tea: White Crucifixion (1938)
  32. RCH: Calvin Coolidge
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  35. Afternoon Tea: Last Supper (1903)
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  37. Monetary Progression and the Bitcoiner’s History of Money
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  39. Automated law enforcement and rational basis
  40. Afternoon Tea: Christ on the Sea of Galilee (1854)
  41. Obscenity law liberalised
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  43. From the Comments: Mexican communist art at San Francisco’s public colleges
  44. Nightcap
  45. Bad guys and bad thinking
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  47. Afternoon Tea: Frozen Assets (1931)
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  49. Liberty and pro-choice arguments
  50. What’s the biggest takeaway from my Blockchain classes?
  51. Nightcap
  52. Afternoon Tea: Le Coq (1938)
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  55. Afternoon Tea: Tramps. Homeless. (1894)
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  57. RCH: MacArthur’s battles
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  59. Middle-class: questioning the definitions
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  61. Afternoon Tea: Circle of Nymphs, Morning (1857)
  62. Government isn’t the only problem
  63. Nightcap

January 2019

  1. Shares of Income – Common Left Delusions
  2. Nightcap
  3. Afternoon Tea: Death of Sardanapalus (1827)
  4. Bad Religion
  5. Nightcap
  6. RCH: MacArthur’s rule over Japan
  7. Nightcap
  8. Blame it on Rio
  9. Afternoon Tea: No Kakinomoto Hitomaro (1835)
  10. Nightcap
  11. Government shutdown – private vs. public responses
  12. Time to emerge from the campaign finance mythology
  13. Nightcap
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  15. Brazil’s sole openly gay congressman leaves the country after death threats?
  16. Afternoon Tea: Portrait of pianist and professor of Saint Petersburg Conservatory Sophie Menter (1887)
  17. John Rawls had good reason to be a reticent socialist and political liberal
  18. Nightcap
  19. Freire’s book (in Portuguese) is up and it’s open access; Van de Haar’s glowing profile
  20. Venezuela: a nightmare coming to an end?
  21. Jacques the Moron
  22. Nightcap
  23. Afternoon Tea: The Calling of Saint Matthew (1600)
  24. Spaghetti Monsters and Free Exercise
  25. Nightcap
  26. Why I turned right
  27. RCH: Annexation of the Hawaiian islands
  28. Nightcap
  29. Afternoon Tea: Town on the Blue River (1910)
  30. “If you work for peace, stop paying for war”
  31. Nightcap
  32. Asking questions about women in the academy
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  35. How the populists came to power
  36. Semiotics in national dialogue: an observation
  37. Afternoon Tea: Ahinora (1925)
  38. Where are our manners?
  39. Nightcap
  40. RE: Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends
  41. Nightcap
  42. Selective Moral Argumentation
  43. Afternoon Tea: Negress (1876)
  44. Southeast Asia, China, and Trumpian foreign policy in 2019
  45. RCH: Cassius Clay as the “greatest American” of the 20th century
  46. Nightcap
  47. The Yellow Vests: Update
  48. Nightcap
  49. A humorous aside, out of context
  50. Immigration: Not Opinions, Facts
  51. Afternoon Tea: The waterfall of Amida behind the Kiso Road (1827)
  52. Nightcap
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  54. In Defense of Not Having a Clue
  55. Nightcap
  56. Libertarianism and the shutdown
  57. Afternoon Tea: Death and Life (1916)
  58. RCH: Five facts about Emancipation Proclamation
  59. Nightcap
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  61. Afternoon Tea: Mother and child (1921)
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  63. In the Spirit of Socialist Realism: Sampling American Multikulti Cinema
  64. RCH: Crazy Horse’s last battle
  65. Nightcap
  66. Afternoon Tea: The Self Immolation of Gogol (1909)
  67. Fantasy and politics
  68. Nightcap
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  70. Some challenges Brazil has to overcome to achieve development
  71. Nightcap
  72. The childishness of the left
  73. Afternoon Tea: Fredericke Maria Beer (1916)
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  76. The Left’s Gospel has no Grace
  77. Afternoon Tea: Rest on the Flight Into Egypt (1597)
  78. Nightcap
  79. Pres. Trump and Me After Two years
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December 2018

  1. Afternoon Tea: The Three Ages of Woman (1905)
  2. Why Christmas materialism is awesome
  3. Nightcap
  4. A short note on 2018 and 2019
  5. Twelve Things Worth Knowing According to Jacques Delacroix, PhD, Plus a Very Few Brain Food Items.
  6. Nightcap
  7. Eroding norms and political transformation: A new chance for liberty?
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  11. Merry Liberty Christmas!
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  15. How the United States can woo Africa away from China
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  18. Where will NoL notewriters be in 2019?
  19. RCH: the Christmas Battles in Latvia
  20. Nightcap
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  22. RCH: Playing catch-up (Churchill, Rosa Parks, and Christmas in the New World)
  23. Nightcap
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  26. Timothy C. May, crypto-anarchist hero (1951 – December 15, 2018)
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  28. Forging ahead, falling behind and fighting back: British economic growth from the industrial revolution to the financial crisis
  29. Nightcap
  30. Damares Alves and the left’s hypocrisy
  31. Nightcap
  32. Jair Bolsonaro, Maria do Rosário, and the Champinha case
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  34. Why Cultural Marxism is a big deal for Brazil, and also for you
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  37. The Yellow Vests Movement in France
  38. No Country for Creative Destruction
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  40. Peer pressure writ large
  41. Eye Candy: The HDI of BRICS
  42. Nightcap
  43. A Brazilian view on the French Protests
  44. Nightcap
  45. The real threat to democracy in Brazil
  46. Nightcap
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  48. Rent isn’t a four-letter word
  49. What is ‘Good’? What was Arendt pursuing?
  50. Answering questions about Bolsonaro (from the comments)
  51. Nightcap
  52. The Americanism of Aureliano Cândido Tavares Bastos
  53. Joakim Book: Winner of the 2018 Money Metals Exchange & Sound Money Defense League essay contest
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  55. Afternoon Tea: “Confucian Constitutionalism in Imperial Vietnam”
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  57. Populism versus Constitutional Democracy
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November 2018

  1. Afternoon Tea: “Highland Chiefs and Regional Networks in Mainland Southeast Asia: Mien Perspectives”
  2. Nightcap
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  4. Afternoon Tea: “Dividing Power in the First and Second British Empires: Revisiting Durham’s Imperial Constitution”
  5. Nightcap
  6. The Shelf Life of the Self: Arendt on Identity Politics
  7. Innovation and the Failure of the Great Man Theory
  8. Nightcap
  9. Afternoon Tea: “Magna Carta for the World? The Merchants’ Chapter and Foreign Capital in the Early American Republic”
  10. Nightcap
  11. Eye Candy: Kalmar Union, circa 1400
  12. Used in classrooms, abused in chatrooms
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  15. Afternoon Tea: “Shareholder Activism at the Dutch East India Company 1622-1625”
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  18. More Longform essays
  19. Afternoon Tea: “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”
  20. Nightcap
  21. New Books: Philosophy of the Novel, French conquests
  22. Nightcap
  23. Main Street in Gopher Prairie (and elsewhere)
  24. Afternoon Tea: “Albert Venn Dicey and the Constitutional Theory of Empire”
  25. Nightcap
  26. Nightcap
  27. NOL’s newest feature: the Longform Essays
  28. Nightcap
  29. RCH: Vietnam War armistice, Southeast Asian kingdoms, and abolitionism in America
  30. Afternoon Tea: “The Johor-VOC Alliance and the Twelve Years Truce: Factionalism, Intrigue and International Diplomacy, C.1606-1613”
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. Afternoon Tea: “English Liberties Outside England: Floors, Doors, Windows, and Ceilings in the Legal Architecture of Empire”
  34. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 20): Transitional Measures and Conclusions
  35. Nightcap
  36. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 19): How to Go About It
  37. Nightcap
  38. The Negative Capability of a Good Legislator
  39. Afternoon Tea: “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War”
  40. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 18): Reforms I Would Favor
  41. Books I’ve been reading (and elections I’ve been watching)
  42. Nightcap
  43. Eye Candy: the five largest cities in each American state, as constellations
  44. Nightcap
  45. 100 years after World War 1
  46. Nightcap
  47. Afternoon Tea: “‘Chief Princes and Owners of All’: Native American Appeals to the Crown in the Early Modern British Atlantic”
  48. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 17): Merit-Based Immigration and Other Solutions
  49. Nightcap
  50. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 16): Toward a One-Party System?
  51. Nightcap
  52. Islamophobia!
  53. Afternoon Tea: “The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
  54. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 15): Conservative Inadequacy with Respect to Immigration
  55. Nightcap
  56. Should you vote today? Only if you want to.
  57. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 14): Immigration and Politics
  58. Nightcap
  59. The Factual Basis of Political Opinions
  60. Afternoon Tea: “The Burdens of Subjecthood: The Ottoman State, Russian Fugitives, and Interimperial Law, 1774-1869”
  61. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 13): The California Hourglass Class Figure
  62. Nightcap
  63. Eye Candy: Antarctica’s countries
  64. Nightcap
  65. Sri Lankan strongmen and Chinese initiatives: India’s neighborhood is as bustling as ever
  66. RCH: Antarctic history
  67. Nightcap
  68. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 12): The Shape of Anti-immigrant Hostility
  69. Nightcap
  70. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 11): Anti-Immigrant Hostility and Reactions
  71. Nightcap

October 2018

  1. The Capitalist Peace: What Happened to the Golden Arches Theory?
  2. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 10); Immigration and the Host Culture: Two Sources of Rejection
  3. Nightcap
  4. RCH: The Successful Failure of Truman Assassination Attempt
  5. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 9): Non-Economic Objections to Immigration; Assimilation and Stubborn Language Facts
  6. Nightcap
  7. From the Comments: Bolsonaro is no libertarian (but is he a fascist?)
  8. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 8): Culture, Immigration, and Culture
  9. Nightcap
  10. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism X
  11. Nightcap
  12. RCH: 10 countries that didn’t survive the Cold War
  13. Nightcap
  14. Is this patriotism?
  15. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 7): An Exemplary Social Science Attempt to Disentangle
  16. Nightcap
  17. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 6); Immigrants, Crime and Incarceration: Another Mostly Local Cost and a Causal Tangle.
  18. Nightcap
  19. Small thought on the fundamental revolution of Blockchain
  20. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 5); The Net Contribution of Immigrants: An Attempt at Critical Quantification
  21. Nightcap
  22. RCH: Grenada and the polarization of democratic society
  23. Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 4): Bad and Worse Immigrants, and Fallacies
  24. Nightcap
  25. Immigration Into the United States (Part 3)
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. From the Comments: How can we not consent to government if we obey it voluntarily?
  30. Legal Immigration Into the United States: The H-1B Visas Confusion and Controversy (Part 2 of 6)
  31. RCH: The Crimean War was the 19th century’s most important
  32. Nightcap
  33. Brazil’s Turn to the Right
  34. Legal Immigration Into the United States: Introduction (Part 1 of 6)
  35. Nightcap
  36. Sine qua non: No shortcuts
  37. Do You have Silver?
  38. Nightcap
  39. RCH: America and Russia use to be friends
  40. Nightcap
  41. Doctor Who – a commentary on Brexit?
  42. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
  43. American protectionism and Asian responses
  44. Economic Liberalism and (Re)Building Europe after WWII.
  45. Nightcap
  46. NATO, Kendrick Lamar, and the answer to free riding
  47. Nightcap
  48. Liberalism, Democracy, and Polarization
  49. Nightcap
  50. RCH: 10 key World War I events in October
  51. Nightcap
  52. One Cheer for NATO
  53. Nightcap
  54. RCH: The battle that shaped Texas for one hundred years
  55. Nightcap
  56. Tokyo’s holistic approach to Africa needs to be applauded
  57. Nightcap
  58. A short note from the editor
  59. Nightcap
  60. Christine Blasey Ford trivializes rape; the Left’s Orwellian doublespeak
  61. Nightcap
  62. Nightcap
  63. RCH: Religion in the USSR
  64. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism IX
  65. Nightcap
  66. Nightcap
  67. Nightcap
  68. RCH: law schools and Thurgood Marshall
  69. Nightcap
  70. Nightcap

September 2018

  1. Eye Candy: Gay marriage in Europe (2018)
  2. The EU’s laudable Asia Connectivity Strategy
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Opportunities for blockchain-based social media in developing countries
  6. RCH: 10 most divisive Supreme Court justices in American history
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. China-Myanmar Economic Corridor and the limits of ‘Cheque Book Diplomacy’
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. India’s approach towards BRI: Need for pragmatism
  14. Eye Candy: millennials (ages 25-29) living at home (Europe)
  15. Nightcap
  16. Nightcap
  17. RCH: 10 corporations that gave capitalism a bad name
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. INDIA: A case study in the demise of representative democracy
  24. RCH: 10 Dead Nazis You’ve Never Heard Of
  25. Eye Candy: France’s 50 largest islands
  26. Nightcap
  27. A short note from New Delhi on the 2018 Eastern Economic Forum
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Pakistan-China ties and CPEC
  32. RCH: The United States and the Middle East
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. Rule of Law: the case of open texture of language and complexity
  36. Nightcap
  37. Eye Candy: the states in India’s federation
  38. Nightcap
  39. Nightcap
  40. Jair Bolsonaro suffers a knife attack.
  41. Nightcap
  42. The Incomplete Counterfactual Fallacy
  43. A shift in the Great Conversation
  44. Nightcap
  45. Vox on Puerto Rican statehood
  46. Nightcap
  47. RCH: the Peace of Paris (1783)
  48. LARB can’t figure out why South Korea’s government is so bad at marketing campaigns
  49. Nightcap
  50. RCH: 10 rivalries that shaped world history
  51. Are Swedish University Tuitions Fees Really Free?
  52. We have seen the algorithm and it is us.
  53. Nightcap
  54. Eye Candy: garbage versus trash (American dialects)
  55. Nightcap
  56. Nightcap

August 2018

  1. Nightcap
  2. A short note on Brazil’s elections
  3. RCH: death and taxes
  4. Nightcap
  5. Philosophy of science and free speech
  6. Nightcap
  7. The Catholic Church, Pedophilia, and Gay Rights
  8. Nightcap
  9. A Millennial’s New Perspective on Home Ownership
  10. The State and education – Part IV: Conclusion
  11. Nightcap
  12. Eye Candy: the provinces of ancient Rome
  13. Nightcap
  14. RCH: 10 libertarian thoughts on the (American) Civil War
  15. Nightcap
  16. Nightcap
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. Between anarchy and minarchism
  20. Nightcap
  21. The Real Cost of National Health Care
  22. Nightcap
  23. Eye Candy: travel advice for Dutch citizens
  24. Nightcap
  25. Nightcap
  26. Naipaul (RIP) and the Left
  27. 10 horrific ways to die (RCH)
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. RCH: Imperialism and the Panama Canal
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. China and the liberal vision of the Indo-Pacific
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Why Hayek was Wrong about American and European Conservatism IV
  38. RCH: “10 Places That Should Join the U.S.”
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. Evidence-based policy needs theory
  42. Nightcap
  43. Nightcap
  44. Why Hayek was Wrong about American and European Conservatism III
  45. Nightcap
  46. Nightcap
  47. Finally, the US is getting serious about the Indo-Pacific
  48. Why Hayek was Wrong about American and European Conservatism II
  49. Nightcap
  50. Some Friday links
  51. Nightcap
  52. Why Hayek was Wrong About American and European Conservatism I
  53. Nightcap
  54. How will Imran Khan’s electoral triumph affect Pakistan’s relationship with China?
  55. Nightcap

July 2018

  1. The promise and peril of blockchain distributed governance
  2. Nightcap
  3. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism VIII
  4. Nightcap
  5. Brexit Breakdown and Confusion
  6. Nightcap
  7. Is NoL discriminating against Trojan fans?
  8. Courts as Modern Civic Churches?
  9. Feyerabend: Westernization and culture
  10. How will Imran Khan’s electoral triumph affect Pakistan’s relationship with India?
  11. Nightcap
  12. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism VII
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. RCH: America’s WWII internment camps
  16. Nightcap
  17. Nightcap
  18. On Robert Allen’s defense of the High-Wage Economy hypothesis
  19. Nightcap
  20. Eye Candy: Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. Animation Review #1: Burn the Witch
  24. Nightcap
  25. The Helsinki Follies
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism VI
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. RCH: Terrorism, libertarianism in the mountain west, global gold rushes, and more!
  33. Defending Political Liberty in an Administered World
  34. Nightcap
  35. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism V
  36. Nightcap
  37. Battling Time and Ignorance: Mario Rizzo at 70
  38. The Enlightenment and the Birth of Racism
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. Brexit Breakdown
  42. Turkey at the start of one-man rule
  43. Nightcap
  44. Crediting Co-Authorship
  45. From the comments: the Ottoman Empire and its millet system
  46. Could free speech have led to overseas empires?
  47. Nightcap
  48. Eye Candy: Mexican election results (2018)
  49. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism IV
  50. Nightcap
  51. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism III
  52. Nightcap
  53. Hegemony is hard to do: China, globalization, and “debt traps”
  54. Ottomanism, Nationalism, Republicanism II
  55. Nightcap
  56. Ottomanism, Republicanism, Nationalism I
  57. Nightcap
  58. Nightcap
  59. Law, Judgement, Republicanism
  60. Should The Academic “We” Be Ditched?
  61. Some quick thoughts from Athens
  62. Nightcap
  63. Nightcap
  64. Eye Candy: Each (American) state’s biggest export trading partner
  65. Nightcap

June 2018

  1. Pakistan’s dynastic politics and the PML-N’s Sharif family
  2. Turkey after the Election
  3. Nightcap
  4. Busy, busy, busy
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Eye Candy: Countries whose capital is not their largest city
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Debating a Marxist: An invitation
  15. Nightcap
  16. Red Lobsters and Black Swans
  17. Nightcap
  18. Separation of Children: an American Tradition
  19. RCH: the Cherokee Nation and the US Civil War
  20. Nightcap
  21. Why protect speech?
  22. Nightcap
  23. The TSA Wins
  24. Eye Candy: 2026 World Cup votes, by country
  25. Nightcap
  26. Meat-y Twitter Spat: Choice, Vegetarianism and Caste in India
  27. Nightcap
  28. A note on India’s performance at the recent SCO Summit
  29. The Politics of the Incredibles (minimal spoilers)
  30. Nightcap
  31. The minimum wage induced spur of technological innovation ought not be praised
  32. The State in education – Part III: Institutionalization of learning
  33. Nightcap
  34. A note on the three Californias and arbitrary borders
  35. Nightcap
  36. Is minimalism immoral?
  37. Nightcap
  38. Nightcap
  39. Eye Candy: the Arab world’s administrative divisions
  40. Nightcap
  41. Nightcap
  42. Freedom of Religion Secures Other Rights As Well
  43. RCH: the Ottoman Empire
  44. Nightcap
  45. Nightcap
  46. Nightcap
  47. Turkey elections: Elections, Rappers, Media, Micro-Party, Rigging, Iraq
  48. Nightcap
  49. The Why of Religious Freedom
  50. Latest thoughts on Brexit: Its Decay, Italy (and Ireland), Cars, and Giving up British Citizenship
  51. Nightcap
  52. Eye Candy: medieval trade networks
  53. Nightcap
  54. Nightcap
  55. Nightcap

May 2018

  1. On “strawmanning” some people and inequality
  2. On Household Size and Economic Convergence
  3. Nightcap
  4. Fogel on economics and ideology
  5. The State in education – Part II: Social Warfare
  6. Serey: a Cambodian blockchain-based social media platform inspired by Friedrich Hayek’s theory of dispersed knowledge
  7. Nightcap
  8. ICE as Education Planners
  9. More on the Turkish Elections
  10. Nightcap
  11. Turkish Elections: Some Hope
  12. Divergence and Convergence within Italy
  13. Nightcap
  14. Jordan Peterson’s Ignorance of Postmodern Philosophy
  15. Eye Candy: the US Asian population, circa 2010
  16. Nightcap
  17. The great global trend for the equality of well-being since 1900
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Economists vs. The Public
  21. Nightcap
  22. Lucas Freire: 2018 Novak Award winner
  23. The State in education – Part I: A History
  24. Nightcap
  25. Nixon to Moscow, slavery’s toll on the economy
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Eye Candy: Japanese anti-Russian propaganda
  29. Nightcap
  30. Israelis Kill Unarmed Palestinians in Gaza
  31. George Halm against Common Wisdom on Currency Boards
  32. Nightcap
  33. Dictators who gave up power?
  34. What is the proper role of government?
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Nightcap
  38. Cities in capitalism are more beautiful
  39. The Mexican-American War, and another warm welcome
  40. Halliday’s ‘The World’s Twelve Worst Ideas’
  41. Nightcap
  42. Law on the market: a debate
  43. Some reasons why I love capitalism
  44. Nightcap
  45. Christianism and Liberalism
  46. Eye Candy: the Speed Limits of the highways of Texas
  47. Nightcap
  48. From the Comments: What’s worth reading from Karl Marx?
  49. Nightcap
  50. What is Cultural Marxism, anyway?
  51. “The Dutch Empire”
  52. Role of a Citizen in Hegemonic Authoritarianism
  53. Nightcap
  54. Cultural marxism and the Overton window
  55. Nightcap
  56. A Confession: I Voted for Trump
  57. “How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him”
  58. Nightcap
  59. A short note on the India-Pakistan thaw
  60. Does the Bible teach Sola Scriptura?
  61. RCH, and a warm welcome
  62. Nightcap
  63. The Sad Retreat
  64. Communism / socialism is rubbish – both in theory and in practice.
  65. Nightcap
  66. Eye candy: Azimuthal Argentina, 1975
  67. Yasmina
  68. Nightcap
  69. The Indo-Pacific narrative, US insularity, and China’s increasing influence
  70. The deadliest riots in American history
  71. Nightcap
  72. Is Fundamentalism a problem?
  73. Nightcap
  74. The Impossible Trinity of Liberal Democracy
  75. Nightcap
  76. Can you spot the most important information in this title?
  77. Nightcap
  78. “The staying power of ‘Citizen Kane'”
  79. Nightcap

April 2018

  1. Lunchtime Links
  2. Beijing and the India-Pakistan conundrum
  3. Nightcap
  4. Eye Candy: the languages of Brazil
  5. Nightcap
  6. Explaining current Brazilian politics to known-Brazilians and why I believe this is time for optimism
  7. Nightcap
  8. “10 little-known fascist governments”
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Explaining Jair Bolsonaro to non-Brazilians
  12. Nightcap
  13. Low-Quality Publications and Academic Competition
  14. Nightcap
  15. The Intolerance of Tolerance
  16. The news cycle vs. current events
  17. Nightcap
  18. Eye Candy: Computer games, worldwide
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Brazilian senator Gleisi Hoffmann sends weird message to “Arab World”
  22. “Top 10 Things That Tipped Off Revolutionary War”
  23. Nightcap
  24. The problem with Brazil (and it’s not socialism)
  25. Nightcap
  26. Brazilian Senator Aécio Neves close to jail
  27. “Horrors Didn’t End When Bataan Death March Did”
  28. Nightcap
  29. Time for optimism in Brazil
  30. Pot smoking and freedom: ‘Murica!
  31. Nightcap
  32. Monarchical Brazil was not a conservative paradise
  33. Nightcap
  34. Eye Candy: Kurdistan
  35. On the rift between economics and everything else
  36. Nightcap
  37. Brazil-Africa Relations, Now and Then
  38. Nightcap
  39. Nightcap
  40. Life expectancy at birth is not a predictor of health care efficiency…
  41. Bolton’s Iran policy: could it strengthen the China-Russia-Iran-Pakistan axis?
  42. Nightcap
  43. Is it always wrong to be angry?
  44. A quick thought on UBI
  45. Nightcap
  46. Why the left loves democracy
  47. Nightcap
  48. From Petty Crime to Terrorism
  49. Nightcap
  50. Recent developments in the context of Indo-Pacific
  51. Eye Candy: Poo-Pooing in Public, Percentages
  52. Nightcap
  53. Nightcap
  54. Leftism = Victim blaming
  55. “10 things you didn’t know about World War I”
  56. Nightcap
  57. A glorious day in Brazil
  58. Nightcap
  59. Midweek Reader: The Folly of Trump’s Tariffs
  60. From the Comments: More trade, more states?
  61. Nightcap
  62. Can Elizabeth Warren help turn the populist tide?
  63. Nightcap
  64. Revisiting Epstein’s Freedom and Growth
  65. Lunchtime Links
  66. An update on the federalist debate in India
  67. Nightcap
  68. Eye Candy: The Age of Borders
  69. Nightcap

March 2018

  1. The President’s commission on opioids (2/2)
  2. Nightcap
  3. English and Math
  4. Nightcap
  5. The President’s commission on opioids (1/2)
  6. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
  7. Nightcap
  8. Midweek Reader: The Drug War, the Opioid Crisis, and the Moral Hazard of Overdose Treatment
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. John Bolton: the view from India
  12. Nightcap
  13. Eye Candy: the Russian Civil War
  14. Nightcap
  15. Who are the protectionists in Africa?
  16. Nightcap
  17. Brazil top court delays decision on blocking prison for ex-president Lula
  18. What on earth was the Dervish state?
  19. Nightcap
  20. Trump’s personal game might work in China
  21. Nightcap
  22. India’s near-abroad: Iran’s regional moves
  23. Nightcap
  24. Are voting ages still democratic?
  25. Lessons from the Stamp Act
  26. Nightcap
  27. Electricity in Quebec before Nationalization (1919 to 1939)
  28. Nightcap
  29. Rosenbloom on the Colonial American Economy
  30. The populist right in India, and the US
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. World War I destroyed Christianity
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. 3 key problems with Trump’s style of functioning
  37. Nightcap
  38. “Does Russia own a piece of the US?”
  39. Nightcap
  40. Deep Learning and Abstract Orders
  41. Nightcap
  42. Nightcap
  43. On demography and living standards in the colonial era
  44. On why complexity from simple rules is counterintuitive
  45. Nightcap
  46. 10 Greatest Speeches of All Time
  47. Nightcap
  48. How poor was 18th century France? Steps towards testing the High-Wage Hypothesis (HWE)
  49. Nightcap
  50. Trump’s humor is not very funny to the world’s liberal democracies
  51. Nightcap
  52. Lunchtime Links
  53. Mormons and California’s Gold Rush
  54. Nightcap
  55. Pinker wrote a nice rejoinder
  56. Quad: The way ahead and the key challenges
  57. Nightcap
  58. Nightcap
  59. West Coast Hillbillies
  60. Nightcap
  61. World War I: a pity
  62. Nightcap
  63. Nightcap

February 2018

  1. Is Free-Riding for Union Negotiations a Myth?
  2. Nightcap
  3. Underrated & overrated libertarian thinkers
  4. Nightcap
  5. SMP: Lessons From Inflation-targeting Regimes
  6. Political Science survey (take it!)
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. On Antitrust, the Sherman Act and Accepted Wisdom
  11. The Gradual, Eventual Triumph of Liberty
  12. Secessions that didn’t work out
  13. Nightcap
  14. A quote
  15. Values quiz (worth taking!)
  16. Nightcap
  17. A short note on Klimt and Schiele
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Tech’s Ethical Dark Side
  21. Nightcap
  22. Free speech and campus conservatives: good news
  23. Nightcap
  24. Nightcap
  25. WP: Does Bitcoin Have the Right Monetary Rule?
  26. Nightcap
  27. If causality matters, should the media talk about mass shootings?
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Do risk preferences account for 1.4 percentage points of the gender pay gap?
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. A short note on Rand Paul’s shaming of the GOP
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. Prices in Canada since 1688
  37. Nightcap
  38. RIP John Perry Barlow – On the right to free information
  39. Nightcap
  40. 2018 Hayek Essay Contest
  41. The best economic history papers of 2017
  42. Nightcap
  43. On the “tea saucer” of income inequality since 1917
  44. Nightcap
  45. On Ronald Coase as an Economic Historian?
  46. Déjà vu
  47. On the popularity of economic history
  48. On the point of quantifying in general and quantifying for policy purposes
  49. A free press, the Left, and the FBI
  50. In health care, expenditures to GDP may be misleading!
  51. What should universities do?

January 2018

  1. Lunchtime Links
  2. On Monopsony and Legal Surroundings
  3. Worth a gander
  4. Paul Romer, the World Bank and Angus Deaton’s critique of effective altruism
  5. Is Trump turning the US into the Biggest Loser?
  6. The US Immigration Lottery
  7. In the Search for an Optimal Level of Inequality
  8. In foreign affairs, don’t ignore “soft power”
  9. BC’s weekend reads
  10. SMP: The Macro Bifurcation
  11. Tocqueville on the Russians
  12. Shitholes: Where the President is Wrong
  13. What is the best book about Argentina?
  14. Lunchtime Links
  15. A quick update, then liberals and democracy, followed by racism and rectification
  16. Pakistan’s long struggle for democracy could get a boost from Trump, Rand Paul, and …the Saudis
  17. From the Comments: the Ottoman Empire, the millet system, and nationalism
  18. On the Race Question
  19. A preliminary argument against moral blameworthiness
  20. Law and Liberty: Hobbesians vs Rechtsstaaters
  21. India needs to work harder, both in its own backyard and in its near-abroad

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