The Curious Engineer

Notes On Liberty

2020–2026

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2026 52

October 2026

  1. The Climate Bomb, Part 2: Collapsing Towers of Ice and Stone Echo 9/11
  2. The Climate Bomb, Part 1: Collapsing Polar Peaks Portend a New, Menacing “Absolute Weapon”
  3. The Trilateral Triumph: As Nuuk Out-Negotiates Its Suitors, the Real Win is for Arctic Exceptionalism

September 2026

  1. The Genocide Next Door
  2. The Rebel Realist: My Arctic and Realist Journeys Converge

August 2026

  1. The Sovereign Sea, Part 4: A Coalition of the Whaling, Redux
  2. The Sovereign Sea, Part 3: Maritime Foundations of Tribe-State Collaboration
  3. The Sovereign Sea, Part 2: Cultural Survival, Ecological Realism, and the Geopolitics of Whaling
  4. The Sovereign Sea, Part 1: Remembering the Great Bowhead Hunt of 1991
  5. Between “Arctic Doom” and “Arctic Boom,” Part 2: Inuit Autonomy and Sovereign Restoration: Nunavut and Greenlandic Self-Rule
  6. Between “Arctic Doom” and “Arctic Boom,” Part 1: Navigating a Path to a Secure, Prosperous and Free Arctic
  7. The Altar of Total War: Sumida, Hiroshima, and the Mass Sacrifice of the Innocent
  8. Hansai, or the Cleansing Fire.
  9. A Coalition of the Whaling: Why America Should Embrace Marine Mammal Diplomacy for the Arctic

July 2026

  1. My Arctic Journey, Part 7: Historical Manifestations and Structural Taxonomy of Constructive Realism.
  2. My Arctic Journey, Part 6: Constructive Realism as a Bridge: Rethinking Western Order, from the Polar to the Global
  3. My Arctic Journey, Part 5: Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World (2024)
  4. My Arctic Journey, Part 4: Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom (2010)
  5. My Arctic Journey, Part 3: On Thin Ice (2009)
  6. My Arctic Journey, Part 2: Breaking the Ice (2008)
  7. My Arctic Journey, Part 1: A Northern Perspective on World Politics and IR Theory
  8. My Realist Journey, Part 5: Our State of Recovery.
  9. My Realist Journey, Part 4: Navigating the State of Chaos.
  10. My Realist Journey, Part 3: Strategy After Hiroshima (State of Doom).
  11. My Realist Journey, Part 2: Our Enduring Realist Tradition; 2500+ Years of Constructive Realism.
  12. My Realist Journey: Looking Back Upon 2,500 Years of Realist Theory as America Turns 250
  13. The Return of the State of Doom: Drone Strikes, Desperation, and Putin’s Nuclear Temptation

June 2026

  1. Escaping the Fatalism of the Thucydides Trap: A Manifesto for Constructive Realism
  2. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  3. How Greenland’s Independence Could Catalyze Canada’s Balkanization
  4. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  5. Greenland and the Spirit of 1776
  6. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  7. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  8. Code Blue: How America Can Help Heal Greenland’s Rural Health Crisis
  9. After Greenland’s Liberation: Inuit Sovereign Expansion
  10. An Arctic Deal of the Century: Why It’s Time to Liberate Greenland

March 2026

  1. “Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez
  2. “India, the Jigsaw Piece that Didn’t Fit” by Jens Norrby
  3. Print version of 4.1 (2026) is now available
  4. “Betting on Better Governance” by George Agbesi & Joshua D. Ammons
  5. “Of Lamb and Man” by Onyinyechi Ndukaire
  6. Fundraising Drive for an Institutional Home
  7. “The Twelve Delusions of the Lollards” by Lucy Swan
  8. “Incorrigible Rudeness, The Strategy For Social-Political Impotence” by Paul Poenicke
  9. “Anarchists and Crime” by Katrina Gulliver
  10. Print copies of Isonomia Quarterly’s latest issue (4.1 Spring 2026) are now available

February 2026

  1. New Episode of Mutual Exchange Radio with Kevin Carson on the Methodenstreit
  2. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out now!
  3. Economics and the Mirror of Nature

January 2026

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly coming out soon
  2. The Cruel, Conceited Follies of Trump’s Foreign Policy: 2026 Edition

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November 2025

  1. “Towards a Complete Libertarianism”

September 2025

  1. What I’ve been working on
  2. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out!

July 2025

  1. Notes On Liberty is Now On Bluesky
  2. In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part III: When the Barbarians Are at the Gates; Fascism, Bullshit, and the Paradox of Tolerance

June 2025

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out

March 2025

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out

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August 2024

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out

May 2024

  1. Some arbitrage free Byzantine rates of return

March 2024

  1. Piece of music

February 2024

  1. Dirigisme and Social Polarization.
  2. Second-hand bookstores and the souls of cities

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November 2023

  1. Lit in Review: Things that move people
  2. An infinite (or maybe indefinite) loop of good and bad sense in public policy

October 2023

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap

September 2023

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Americanization in the wild
  9. Nightcap
  10. Africa’s quest for sovereignty
  11. Nightcap
  12. Sovereign territory and decolonization movements
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Americanization in the wild
  17. Against Hayek’s globalism
  18. Nightcap
  19. Americanization in the wild
  20. The market in attention
  21. The homogenization of America, and the Americanization of Europe and East Asia
  22. Nightcap
  23. I’m back here on WordPress

March 2023

  1. We’ve moved!
  2. We’ve moved!
  3. We’ve moved!

2022 101

August 2022

  1. Albania: People and Ruins

July 2022

  1. We’ve moved!
  2. We’ve moved!
  3. We’ve moved!
  4. We’ve moved!
  5. We’ve moved!
  6. Hayek, or the Recursive Model of the Rule of Law
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. Before the Fourth
  9. Two Bald Eagles: Symbols of Divided Attitudes?
  10. Monday’s Equality Lessens

June 2022

  1. Stimuli For Your Moral Taste Buds [June 2022 Edition]
  2. Gold Rush ducks (rushed in Monday)
  3. Fighting for Every Inch of Ukrainian Soil
  4. Meanwhile, back in Iran: The demise of JCPOA
  5. Classical Liberalism versus Liberal Internationalism
  6. Some Reflections on Liberal Democracy, Political Meritocracy, and Critical Rationalism
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. Lit in Review: The impact of epidemics on historical economics, part 1

May 2022

  1. A couple of “how” Monday Links
  2. On Persons, Individuals, and Humans
  3. Two visions of multilateralism are competing in the Indo-Pacific
  4. Stimuli For Your Moral Taste Buds
  5. Nightcap
  6. Some Monday Links
  7. On the open texture of conflicts
  8. Nightcap
  9. In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part II: The Barbarians at the Gates
  10. In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part I: The Problem of Dialogical Illiberalism
  11. Nightcap
  12. Some Monday Links
  13. Nightcap
  14. Why developing countries need to reduce their economic reliance on China
  15. A short reflection on the unintended political consequences of the right of due process
  16. Some Monday Links
  17. The meaning of Hayek’s main views on monetary theory
  18. Nightcap
  19. May the Fourth…
  20. Nightcap
  21. Nightcap
  22. Some Monday Links
  23. A few words — and many quotations – about the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein on Friedrich Hayek

April 2022

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. From the Comments: French social scientists
  5. I Don’t Want to Fight to the Last Ukrainian
  6. Nightcap
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Some derivations from the uses of the terms “knowledge” and “information” in F. A. Hayek’s works.
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap: Primitive communism
  14. “What’s in a name?”
  15. Some Monday Links
  16. Debt Traps from China, Western Stringency, and the Future of South Asian Democracy
  17. Nightcap
  18. The Federation of Free States: Helping Atlas Shrug
  19. A Note on “Hayekian” Empirical Normative Systems
  20. Nightcap
  21. Nightcap
  22. A couple of Monday Links
  23. Nightcap
  24. Hayek the globalist
  25. Monday’s literal fantasies
  26. Why Pakistan can not afford further deterioration of ties with the West

March 2022

  1. The case for Taiwan’s statehood
  2. Meanwhile, in India
  3. Some Monday Links
  4. Deprivations Of Liberty Seen Through Ekphrastic Poetry
  5. Some Monday Links
  6. Some Monday Links
  7. New Book! Markets with Limits: How the commodification of academia derails debate
  8. How This Paris Boy Became an American Scholar (Plus a Disquisition on Language Learning)
  9. Oil Prices and the Ukrainian War
  10. A Bloody Hawaiian Paradise
  11. Some Friday Links – Ukraine in Moscow

February 2022

  1. Some Monday Links
  2. 2022 Hayek Essay Contest
  3. Some Monday Links
  4. The US-France-Germany triangle and the Ukraine crisis
  5. Some Monday Links
  6. The Russian-American-Chinese Triangle: A Changing Global Landscape
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. The Federation of Free States: Growing pains

January 2022

  1. Monday’s Link
  2. Some Monday Links: Mostly Econ, again
  3. China’s new footprint in the Middle East starts with Iran
  4. Some Monday Links
  5. Nightcap: Development with Dignity
  6. Podcast Institute of Economic Affairs
  7. New issue of The Independent Review is out
  8. China, Covid, and economic slowdowns
  9. Reasonable decisions leading to lousy results
  10. Race versus class: Identifying the difference
  11. No nightcap tonight
  12. Nightcap
  13. Monday’s Vintage Whines
  14. Nightcap

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December 2021

  1. Nightcap
  2. China’s new footprint in the post-American Middle East
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Some Monday Links
  6. The Misdiagnosis That Continues To Save Lives: Origin Story Of The War On Cancer
  7. Classical liberalism and the Russia crisis
  8. Book list triple threat
  9. The Aussie-UK Free Trade Agreement
  10. Some Monday Links
  11. The Quad of West Asia: New Developments, Old Problems
  12. From the comments: Kinship networks and U.S. politicians
  13. “Blood is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China”
  14. Some Monday Links (extend, not pretend version)
  15. “Federations, coalitions, and risk diversification”

November 2021

  1. Some Monday Links: The food issue
  2. HIGH DEMAND FOR HIGH CHEEKBONES
  3. A Liberal View on Trade and Development
  4. Some Monday Links: Mostly Economics
  5. David Hume and Adam Smith
  6. Things (and few Links) Korea, in times before, and after, the light
  7. (A couple of) Monday Links and the trap that keeps on showing up
  8. Some Monday Links

October 2021

  1. Tonight Is the Close of Winterfelleth
  2. (Monday’s) comic book edition
  3. Some Monday Links
  4. Some Monday Links
  5. Do we have the right to be wrong?
  6. Some Monday Links

September 2021

  1. Some Monday Links, in feary tales
  2. Some Monday Links
  3. Monday Links and unders – NOLite te bastardes
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. Late Monday Links
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Afghanistan deserves attention, but don’t lose sight of Iran
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap

August 2021

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. When liberal hegemons leave: Israel’s case for staying in the West Bank forever
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Some Monday links
  17. History in the Breaking and Making of India
  18. Some Monday Links
  19. Biden’s newest foreign policy challenge: Iranian and Israeli hardliners
  20. Police Killings and Race: Afterthoughts
  21. China and the Taliban
  22. Some Monday Links

July 2021

  1. Awareness of Racism and Singing to the Choir
  2. Some Monday Links
  3. Social Care: Who should pay, other than those who benefit?
  4. An Alternative to Chasing New Variants of SARS-CoV-2
  5. Reassessing libertarian foreign policy: a special issue at Cosmos + Taxis
  6. My Pick-Up Truck and the Quality of Global Warming Reports
  7. Some Monday Links – Of bloody summer stains, busted hopes and laundries
  8. Will the US and Iran find common ground in Afghanistan?
  9. Somaliland’s elections
  10. Monday Links, sticks and two (or maybe three) smoking sentences
  11. Iran, the US, nuclear deals, and South Asia
  12. Some Monday Links
  13. A Lot Better than Others
  14. The Harem Pants

June 2021

  1. Fred Foldvary, RIP
  2. Three Astonishing Women
  3. Some Monday Links
  4. What the rise of Raisi means for regional security and nuclear bargains
  5. Caging the leaders of the future
  6. US and China: Knowledge Deficit or Trade Deficit?
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. The muddle-class: A continuation
  9. From the comments: “liberty, evolution, and morals”
  10. “Building Back A Better World”: Can it challenge the BRI?
  11. Shanghai over the years
  12. Monday’s frivolous, flimsy, frail flailings
  13. American Classical Liberals Suck
  14. The Great American Racial Awakening (Part Three): “It Wasn’t Me!” and Something to be Done.
  15. Libertarianism and the new generation
  16. The Great American Racial Awakening (Part Two): “Get over it!”
  17. The Great American Racial Awakening: A Conservative Approach (Part One)
  18. Some Monday Links
  19. Wat’s On my mind: tax and subsidy impacts

May 2021

  1. Some Monday Links
  2. Tuesday night Orwell
  3. Some Monday Links
  4. Supranational (political) entrepreneurs
  5. State formation in Korea and Japan
  6. James Madison continues to be underrated
  7. Monday’s Reserved Judgements (and Satisficing Hopes)
  8. “Libertarianism and international violence”
  9. From the Comments: India and misunderstanding socialism
  10. Libertarian foreign policy for the 21st century
  11. Howdy, from Waco
  12. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 11 of 11)
  13. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 10 of 11)
  14. Some Monday Links
  15. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 9 of 11)
  16. Mother: A Verb and a Noun
  17. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 8 of 11)
  18. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 7 of 11)
  19. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 6 of 11)
  20. Vaccine Apartheid and Intellectual Property
  21. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 5 of 11)
  22. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 4 of 11)
  23. If We Ignore Climate Change Horrible Things are Gonna Happen…
  24. Is a Persian-Saudi thaw on the horizon?
  25. Health policy is a less mature field in India
  26. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 3 of 11)
  27. Biden’s Summit on Climate and Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative
  28. Some Monday Links
  29. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 2 of 11)
  30. Immigration in the Time of Joe Biden: What to Do (Part 1 of 11)

April 2021

  1. What is “old?”: Middle-class pretensions
  2. Transaction Costs are Injustice
  3. Monday’s hints and suggestions, rumors and hunches
  4. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 12 of 12)
  5. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 11 of 12)
  6. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 10 of 12)
  7. CTRL + C: How can ideas find freedom in a digital world?
  8. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 9 of 12)
  9. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 8 of 12)
  10. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 7 of 12)
  11. Some Monday Links
  12. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 6 of 12)
  13. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 5 of 12)
  14. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 4 of 12)
  15. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 3 of 12)
  16. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 2 of 12)
  17. Liberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement. (Part 1 of 12)
  18. Some Monday Links
  19. Julian Simon’s life against the grain
  20. Reflection on the 2020-2021 Job Market
  21. Cato’s Slippery Slope: How the Institute of Liberty Squashed Freedom of Speech
  22. Some Monday Links
  23. “The German Question” of the 19th century
  24. How the abolition of slavery led to imperialism
  25. “The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa”

March 2021

  1. Nighttime blurb
  2. Some Tuesday links
  3. Monetary Tales from the Farthest Shore
  4. Charter cities aren’t all that libertarian, and I doubt they’ll work either
  5. Who invented chicken nuggets?
  6. Nightcap: the end
  7. Francophonie et connerie
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Millionaires against markets? That’ll be a change in demand
  13. St. Patrick’s Day Cerebration
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Nightcap
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. My Mother and my Sex Life
  20. Nightcap
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. The Best Coffee Shop in the People’s Green Socialist Republic of Santa Cruz, California
  24. Nightcap
  25. Nightcap
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Former president Lula out of jail… again
  30. Nightcap
  31. The Moulin Rouge, San Francisco, a Fragment of Memoir
  32. Nightcap
  33. Nightcap
  34. Seljouk!
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Cave Paintings and Elementary Science
  38. Elective Affinities in Institutional Design, 1951
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. Nightcap
  42. Nightcap

February 2021

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. A Near-World Class Model in the African Forest
  7. Nightcap
  8. Does federation unite or divide?
  9. Nightcap
  10. A Tribute to Mary Lasker
  11. John Rawls at 100
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Power outages in Texas
  16. Nightcap
  17. Exit, federation, and scale (from the comments)
  18. Nightcap
  19. Affirmative Guilt-Gradient and the Overton Window in Identity-Based Pedagogy
  20. Afternoon Tea: Allegory of the Peace of Westphalia (1654)
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. The Prose and Poetry of Creation
  25. Nightcap
  26. The poverty of the middle-class: lack of savoir-faire
  27. Nightcap
  28. In Pursuit Of The Human Aim Of Leisure
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. The unyielding middlemen: A timeline of 2020-2021 Indian farmers’ protest
  36. Second to None in the Creation of Extraordinary Wealth
  37. Nightcap
  38. Don’t Call Me Doktor
  39. A warm NOL welcome to Vishnu Modur
  40. Nightcap
  41. ‘South Asian’ identity signals alignment without being aligned to anything specific
  42. Nightcap
  43. Nightcap
  44. Nightcap

January 2021

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. The 1971 war and the creation of Bangladesh: 50 years later
  6. How Falsehoods Take Root
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Why is the Republic of India a Civilization-State?
  10. Nightcap
  11. And the Surfers Shall Lead the Revolution
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Pandemics and Hyperinflations
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. The Al Ula Accord: Qatar’s gains, the UAE’s losses, and Iran’s quiet win
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. Greenwald on Silicon Valley
  24. Post-Mortem
  25. Nightcap
  26. Nightcap
  27. Internet villages and algorithmic-speech
  28. Nightcap
  29. Should we scrap STEM in high school?
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. Casual Empiricism: USPS
  36. The Saudi-Qatar thaw
  37. Nightcap
  38. When May We Be Happy?
  39. A criticism of Indian Americans by an Indian national in the US
  40. EU-China trade talks: More than just economics
  41. Nightcap
  42. Nightcap
  43. Nightcap
  44. Nightcap
  45. Next
  46. Nightcap
  47. UK-Turkey Free Trade Agreement: Beyond the Economics
  48. Nightcap

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December 2020

  1. The short-sightedness of big C Conservatism
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. A touch of optimism
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Disruption arises from Antifragility
  15. Nightcap
  16. Nightcap
  17. Prediction market update
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Internet, over
  22. Nightcap
  23. Holidays blurb
  24. Nightcap
  25. Nightcap
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Biden’s Middle East: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nightcap
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Nightcap
  38. Nightcap

November 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. The poverty of the modern middle class: prologue
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. A couple of post-election thoughts
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. Nightcap
  25. On Joe Biden and America’s relationship with Iran
  26. The politics of The Expanse
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. You vote is your voice–but actions speak louder than words
  33. Election Day
  34. A short non-political note
  35. Offensive advantage and the vanity of ethics
  36. Nightcap
  37. The Seldon Fallacy
  38. Nightcap
  39. Necessity constrains even the gods
  40. Nightcap

October 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Amy Coney Barrett is the start of the rise of the Left
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Efficient markets as normative systems
  12. Nightcap
  13. Triple-blinded trials in political economy
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Choosing inadequacy
  17. “The only time I’m not thinking about Palantir…”
  18. New Zealand’s elections and the geopolitics of the Pacific
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Why snipers have spotters
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. Are we over profit maximization?
  25. Nightcap
  26. Three Roads to Racism
  27. Nightcap
  28. A short note on Iran and India
  29. Nightcap
  30. AOC doesn’t understand Christianity
  31. What is “White Privilege”?
  32. Nightcap
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. Pop Epistemology
  37. Nightcap
  38. Nightcap
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. Nightcap
  42. Nightcap
  43. Nightcap
  44. I blame all of you
  45. Nightcap

September 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. The Westphalian myth
  3. Nightcap
  4. The collapse of socialism and the sovereignty gap
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Transaction costs, exit, and democracy
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Nightcap
  17. Forthcoming: Reviving the libertarian interstate federalist tradition
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Wats On My Mind: I for one welcome our Venusian overlords
  21. Nightcap
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. Nightcap
  25. Nightcap
  26. Interpretation is Everything
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. A short note on great journalism
  31. Nightcap
  32. Casey Peterson, Cultural Marxism, and the Goliath of the Diversity Industry
  33. Nightcap
  34. Game theory in the wild
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Nightcap
  38. Nightcap
  39. Why the US is behind in FinTech, in two charts
  40. Nightcap

August 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. The Revolt of the Baristas
  3. Nightcap
  4. The Blind Invisible Hand
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Nightcap
  9. The Blind Entrepreneur
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. In memory of Gerald Gaus (1952-2020)
  16. The Dunning-Kruger Effect on stature
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. Wats On My Mind: City Management Games
  20. Nightcap
  21. Pourquoi Kamala Harris?
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. Nightcap
  25. Nightcap
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. The Non-Partisan Movement We Need: Anti-Authoritarianism
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Nightcap
  38. Women in my life
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap

July 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. Real Decision Rights Theory and Political Coalitions
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. “Polycentric Sovereignty: The Medieval Constitution, Governance Quality, and the Wealth of Nations”
  7. Nightcap
  8. Colonial history and great journalism: This is how it’s done
  9. Nightcap
  10. “Political decentralization and policy experimentation”
  11. Nightcap
  12. Post-pandemic trends in post-Brexit British foreign policy: Asia or the Atlantic?
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. “The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa”
  16. Nightcap
  17. There is an asteroid headed to Earth
  18. When hard work doesn’t equal productive work
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Slate Star Codex and the rationalists
  22. Nightcap
  23. Throwing the Bums out is Insufficient
  24. The importance of gardening, isonomia, federation, and free banking
  25. Nightcap
  26. International students, international trends
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 9 of 9)
  30. Nightcap
  31. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 8 of 9)
  32. Nightcap
  33. Wat’s On My Mind: Immigration and Voting for Redistribution
  34. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 7 of 9)
  35. Nightcap
  36. New ‘summer eating allowance’ hard to stomach for low earning taxpayers
  37. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 6 of 9)
  38. Nightcap
  39. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 5 of 9)
  40. Nightcap
  41. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 4 of 9)
  42. Nightcap
  43. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 3 of 9)
  44. Nightcap
  45. An aspirational paradox
  46. The View from New Delhi: China’s post-pandemic belligerence
  47. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 2 of 9)
  48. Nightcap
  49. From the Comments: Nationalism, conspiracy theories
  50. Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 1 of 9)
  51. Nightcap
  52. Nightcap
  53. The View from New Delhi: Trump vs. Biden
  54. Nightcap
  55. Nightcap
  56. Nightcap
  57. Nightcap
  58. A paradox
  59. Nightcap

June 2020

  1. Tuesday links
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. From the comments: All of the Bad Things that democratic governments do
  5. Nightcap
  6. From the comments: Microstates and military protection
  7. Nightcap
  8. Vacation links (Friday)
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Hazony’s nation-state versus Christensen’s federation
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Vacation links (Tuesday)
  15. Worth a read: Reality has a surprising amount of detail
  16. Nightcap
  17. Vacation links (Monday)
  18. How I understand left and right today
  19. Nightcap
  20. What I learned in my bachelor’s degree
  21. Vacation links (Sunday)
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. What I learned in the Master’s
  25. What I learned at the doctorate
  26. Vacation
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. WatsOn My Mind: Stimulus Multipliers
  32. The Three T’s in a post-coronavirus world
  33. Nightcap
  34. From the comments: follow on effects of liability rules?
  35. Nightcap
  36. BHL is dead, long live BHL?
  37. Nightcap
  38. Legal silences
  39. Nightcap
  40. The importance of biography
  41. Nightcap
  42. Nightcap
  43. Nightcap
  44. Nightcap
  45. Be Our Guest: “Providing healthcare isn’t practicing medicine”
  46. Nightcap
  47. Nightcap
  48. Liability Rules!
  49. Nightcap
  50. Nightcap
  51. Hayek, International Organization and Covid-19
  52. Nightcap
  53. How much more progressive is the corporate world than academia?
  54. What will a post-pandemic British foreign policy look like?
  55. Nightcap
  56. Brazil’s economy after the pandemic
  57. Nightcap

May 2020

  1. Cyclical History
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Broken incentives in medical research
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Launching our COVID-19 visualization
  9. Pathologies in higher education: a book, a review, and a comment
  10. Nightcap (again)
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Be Our Guest (Sunday Poetry): “Food & Drinks to Rats & Finks”
  14. Nightcap
  15. Foundering in academia
  16. Nightcap
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. The Private Production of Defense
  21. Advice to Libertarian IR Theorists
  22. Skin in the Game or Senility?
  23. Nightcap
  24. Nightcap
  25. Multilateralism is alive and well in the Indo-Pacific
  26. Nightcap
  27. Wats On My Mind: Polling NOL readers about COVID-19
  28. In Defence of Economics Imperialism
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. On growing up in Brazil, political liberty, and religion
  33. Nightcap
  34. Nightcap
  35. A Queens’ Marxist in the Lions’ Court
  36. Nightcap
  37. Be Our Guest (Sunday Poetry): “The Tyrant’s Burden”
  38. Nightcap
  39. Nightcap
  40. On Abraham Kuyper’s Political Liberalism
  41. Nightcap
  42. From Class to Identity: The Cultural Turn in the Left Thought Collective (1950s-1980s)
  43. Evolution in Everything: Handwriting
  44. Nightcap
  45. Nightcap
  46. Elinor Ostrom debunked
  47. A Rare Civilized Exchange with the Other Side
  48. Nightcap
  49. Nightcap
  50. First Contact, libertarianism, and astropolitics
  51. All News is Biased
  52. Nightcap
  53. Expect a new, decentralized narrative in the post-Coronavirus world
  54. Nightcap
  55. The Biden Rat
  56. Wats On My Mind: the state of the economy
  57. Be Our Guest: “Resolved: Human Government is Despotism”
  58. Nightcap

April 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. An update from Texas
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Brazil will not become Venezuela
  8. Nightcap
  9. Wow, what a week
  10. Nightcap
  11. Paid Sick Leave and Schelling Focal Points
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Feyerabend and the libertarians
  16. Nightcap
  17. China versus the Communists; American civil liberties
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. The World Health Organization Revisited; Individual Rights
  21. A very short note on despotism
  22. Nightcap
  23. Grocery shopping in Texas
  24. Last Time You Heard of “Flattening the Curve”?
  25. Nightcap
  26. The view from New Delhi: Pakistan and the coronavirus
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. Authoritarianism in Tiny Steps
  32. Nightcap
  33. A Reflection on Information and Complex Social Orders
  34. Everyone understands what your GPA this semester means
  35. Damned Models and Cutting off the Chinese
  36. Nightcap
  37. Be Our Guest: “Rights and Government Confiscation During COVID-19”
  38. Coddle the Old, Spoil Them; Everybody Else, Back to Work!
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. Mass Hysteria and the Great Economy-Killing: Lessons from 1856 South Africa
  42. The state as the illusionary Deus Ex Machina
  43. Religious speech gets shorted again
  44. Nightcap
  45. Nightcap
  46. Nightcap
  47. A Timely Agent Based Model
  48. Ron Paul’s Revolution: A libertarian education
  49. Nightcap
  50. Nightcap
  51. Ron Paul’s Revolution: Looking back
  52. Be Our Guest: “Those Astonishing Reversals on the Political Left”
  53. Crisis, governments and the micro-macro conundrum
  54. Nightcap
  55. Nightcap

March 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Eco’s ‘How to eat ice cream’
  6. Nightcap
  7. Again: Never reason from a fatality change
  8. Life
  9. Nightcap
  10. A PPE pandemic reading list
  11. The Vexing Libertarian Issue of Transition
  12. Nightcap
  13. A History of Plagues
  14. Nightcap
  15. Pandemic responses are beyond Evidence-based Medicine
  16. Nightcap
  17. Coronavirus and the BRI
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Never reason from a fatality rate
  22. Nightcap
  23. Human Capital Diversification vs Pancake Mix
  24. Seattle’s landlord regs at the Supreme Court
  25. Nightcap
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Coronavirus and the spirit of internationalism
  29. Nightcap
  30. I stopped French kissing. (Coronavirus alert!)
  31. Prediction: Online Adjuncting is About to Boom
  32. Nightcap
  33. Coronavirus and takings
  34. Nightcap
  35. Nightcap
  36. Nightcap
  37. Nightcap
  38. Biden vs. Sanders: The view from New Delhi
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. Be Our Guest: “Government: The Great Post-Christian Swindle”
  42. Nightcap
  43. “There’s Nothing Morally Wrong With Not Wanting to Work Hard at School”
  44. 13 Books for 2020 – What A Year!
  45. Nightcap
  46. Or, why I don’t vote
  47. My Political Paranoia on Speed
  48. Nightcap
  49. Nightcap
  50. “Medicare For All” will never work: a Brazilian view
  51. Nightcap
  52. Nightcap
  53. Nightcap

February 2020

  1. Bernie fans should want Bernie to lose the primary
  2. Nightcap
  3. Broken Incentives in Medical Innovation
  4. That day when the communists tried to seize power in Brazil
  5. Be Our Guest: “What’s the Voter’s Value?”
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Departments of Higher Education should have mystery shoppers
  9. Nightcap
  10. Brazil, the country of Carnival (?)
  11. Nightcap
  12. Nightcap
  13. Amy Klobuchar is the libertarian candidate we don’t deserve
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. The Good Life vs. reality
  17. Nightcap
  18. Nightcap
  19. Nightcap
  20. Nightcap
  21. Black-and-white libertarianism
  22. Nightcap
  23. Nightcap
  24. Nightcap
  25. Edge of Democracy in Brazil?
  26. The Lesson to Unlearn
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Nightcap
  30. Nightcap
  31. More campaign-finance fiction
  32. Nightcap
  33. Nightcap
  34. Be Our Guest: “Elizabeth Warren’s Degrading Diversity Plans”
  35. Ban on inquiries into wage history upheld
  36. Nightcap
  37. Nightcap
  38. Nightcap
  39. The Least Empathic Lot
  40. Be Our Guest: “Sailing a Catholic Ship on Modern Seas”
  41. Nightcap
  42. Goodbye Rudy
  43. Nightcap
  44. Nightcap
  45. Sunday Poetry: Hermann Hesse’s Stages
  46. Nightcap
  47. The problem of value in regulatory takings
  48. Nightcap

January 2020

  1. Nightcap
  2. Second Nature
  3. Nightcap
  4. The open secrets of what medicine actually helps
  5. Watson my mind … while I walk the streets of Moscow
  6. Nightcap
  7. Climate crisis or censorship crisis?
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Nightcap
  12. Chinese government idolatry in a time of the coronavirus
  13. Nightcap
  14. Protecting your privacy: asymmetric cryptography (part 2)
  15. Nightcap
  16. Computational Economics is the Right Perspective
  17. Supreme Court hears vital freedom-of-religion case
  18. Nightcap
  19. “A classical liberal view of the Iran crisis?”
  20. Nightcap
  21. The veil of nostalgia
  22. Nightcap
  23. New thorns in the Special Relationship: Persian, Chinese, and populist
  24. Nightcap
  25. The Blockchain Basics Book has been published and is available for free
  26. Nightcap
  27. Nightcap
  28. Nightcap
  29. Be Our Guest: “Suing Juul Won’t Solve Anything”
  30. Nightcap
  31. Nightcap
  32. Nomic-nomics?
  33. Be Our Guest: “The U.S. Economy: A Fading Illusion?”
  34. Protecting your privacy: symmetric cryptography (part 1)
  35. Nightcap
  36. Sunday Poetry: Gender Equality where it matters? The Scandinavian Unexceptionalism
  37. Nightcap
  38. The fight to preserve the internet as a tool of liberty
  39. Nightcap
  40. Nightcap
  41. A happy ten-year anniversary to the case people love to hate
  42. Nightcap
  43. My Back to the Land Movement
  44. A Lesson in Inventing Your Own Statistics
  45. Nightcap
  46. A blatant campaign-finance boondoggle
  47. Nightcap
  48. Small thought on calls for societal discussions on the ethics of cryptosystems
  49. Nightcap
  50. Sunday Poetry: Halal Cookery by the SS
  51. Nightcap
  52. Nightcap
  53. Nightcap
  54. Nightcap
  55. Nightcap

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