- 'Poverty's effects on the mind lead to bad choices. Living with too little imposes huge psychic costs, reducing our mental bandwidth and distorting our decisionmaking'.
- The missiles that may attack Syria.
- Would Boris Johnson's ascent to the British prime ministership revive the idea of an Anglosphere?
- The idea of human rights has been hijacked since the end of the Cold War by liberal interventionists.
- The Nazi period was a brief break in a long German tradition of admiring America.
- Pessimism about the Indian economy is not reflected in the key indicators.
- Nice primer on 'the great divergence', the economic phenomenon that saw wealth explode in Europe and North America in the 19th century.
- The US Energy Information Administration has a slightly clunky animation showing changes in world oil consumption since 1980. Watch Asia rise and North America plateau. (H/t Autoblog Green.)