Eye Candy: Kurdistan
Countries with significant Kurdish populations in the Near East: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Countries with significant Kurdish populations in the Near East that the United States has bombed or put...
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The transformation of the liberal political tradition in the nineteenth century Pamela Nogales, Age of Revolutions Kurds have conditions for an alliance with Shiites in Iraq Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor...
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ISIS never went away in Iraq Krishnadev Calamur, the Atlantic In search of “real” socialism Kristian Niemietz, CapX Localism and its trade-offs Jason Sorens, Law & Liberty Latin America’s greatest...
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West Coast jazz revival Ted Gioia, City Journal Augustine’s Cogito David Potts, Policy of Truth Iraq: A failure of ideas Sam Roggeveen, War on the Rocks Confucian patriarchy and the allure of communism...
View ArticleRCH: MacArthur’s rule over Japan
That’s the subject of my latest over at RealClearHistory. An excerpt: The relative graciousness of the American occupation of Japan led to the most peaceful and prosperous era in Japanese history....
View ArticleRCH: Iraq, then and now
Folks, I’m still plugging away at RealClearHistory. This week’s focus was on Iraq. Here’s the link to my Tuesday column. And here’s the link to my weekend column. I’m not going to spoil anything. Just...
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Professional Libertarians and the posts they delete Irfan Khawaja, Policy of TruthSmall business, bankruptcy, and the Federal Reserve George Selgin, Alt-MThis is the best left-wing essay on capitalism...
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David Graeber, 1961–2020 New York Review of BooksEat the Buddha: China & Tibet Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewUnderstanding the path to Iraq Joseph Stieb, WOTRAgainst space exploration Andrew...
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What did John Calvin think about economics? Steven Wedgeworth, Calvinist InternationalThe ethnocultural borderlands of early Maoist China Benno Weiner, Age of RevolutionsBurning books Akram Aylisli...
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Foucault, Max Weber, and Hayek Eric Schliesser, Digressions & ImpressionsIt’s been a bad week in America Andrew J Cohen, Prosocial LibertariansSummer 2008 redux? David Glasner, Uneasy...
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