If they grow tired of muddling through, Europe could decide on two alternative futures: what Smith calls “Fortress Europe” or “Return of the protectorate.”
The best books I read in 2019
A delayed book log from 2019, for posterity (or, more accurately, future me).
Why 2019 might not be a repeat of 2017’s snap election
The seats May failed to court in 2017 could be about to turn.
Benjamin Disraeli, Richard Nixon, and the modern Republican Party
A seminal moment in Nixon's intellectual evolution came when he read Robert Blake’s biography of Disraeli and came to the conclusion that “Tory men with liberal policies” held the key to electoral success.
Review: ‘The Constitution of Liberty’ by F. A. Hayek
Those who support the system Hayek championed would do better to evangelize the arguments he actually makes, rather than defend the views his opponents ascribe to him.
Bill Simmons’ shameful response to the NBA’s China problem
Like the Soviets before them, the Communist Party of China doesn't lack for useful idiots in the West.
A final thought on ‘Blood, Class, and Empire’
Worse than British imperialism is imperialism that lacks self-awareness.
I now understand why Boris Johnson banned the phrase ‘special relationship’
The phrase may sound needy to some British ears, but to Americans it is a source of comfort.
Review: ‘My Father Left Me Ireland’ by Michael Brendan Dougherty
In the face of society’s ambivalence if not active hostility toward his mother’s life and death, one begins to doubt that every taboo shed constitutes progress.
The war we abandoned too soon
How much misery could have been averted if, in this case, the Allies had stayed the course?
