August 2022
Group reading
- Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber – William Selinger (2019)
JN
Books
- How the War Was Won – Phillips O’Brien (2015)
Selected articles, blog posts, podcasts
- Tom Fairless – How the German Economic Machine Broke Down
July 2022
Group reading
- Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber – William Selinger (2019)
JN
Books
- The Dawn of Everything – David Graver & David Wengrow (2021)
Selected articles, blog posts, podcasts
- Jan Luyten van Zanden – The first will be the last: Almost 25 years of living with the Euro
- Andrew Nikiforuk – Get Ready for the Forever Plague
- Timothy Snyder – Germans have been involved in the war, chiefly on the wrong side
- Adam Tooze – Chartbook #133 Under the hood of the power dynamics of inflation
June 2022
Group reading
- Rationalism in Politics – Michael Oakeshott (1962)
JN
Books
- Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935 – 1943 – John Gooch (2020)
- Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517 – 1648 – Mark Greengrass (2014)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs (1961)
April 2022
Group reading
- Two Faces of Liberalism – John Gray (2000)
JD
Books
- Parliamentarism: from Burke to Weber – William Selinger (2019)
- Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World – Tom Holland (2019)
Selected articles, blog posts, podcasts
- Adam Gurri – “Liberal Democracy and the Federal System” at Liberal Currents
- Clayton Roberts (1956) – “The Growth of Ministerial Responsibility to Parliament in Later Stuart England”, Journal of Modern History
- Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner – Authority of a Secular Government in Israel
JN
Books
- Collapse: The fall of the Soviet Union, Vladislav Zubok (2021)
- The New Cold War: Putin’s Threat to Russia and the West, Edward Lucas (2008[2014])
- The Bees, Laline Paull (2015)
- Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest, Suzanne Simard (2022)
- How Democracy Ends, David Runciman (2018)
February 2022
Group reading
- Constitutions and Political Theory – Jan-Erik Lane (2011 [1996])
- The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire – William J. Bulman (2021)
JD
Books
- A Fragment on Government – Jeremy Bentham (1776)
- What’s Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It – Simon Hix (2008)
- Faith of the Mithnagdim – Allan Nadler (1997)
- Why Not Parliamentarism – Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos (2020)
Selected articles, blog posts, podcasts
- Adrian Vermeule – “Who Decides?” on The Post Liberal Order substack
- Zack Beauchamp – How does this end? Where the crisis in American democracy might be headed.
- Rabbi Josh Yuter – Current Jewish Questions: Gun Control
BZ
Books
- The Size of Nations – Alberto Alesina & Enrico Spolaore
- Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction – Paul Franco
- Communty, Anarchy & Liberty – Michael Taylor
Selected article, blog posts, podcasts
- Havel, Vaclav – “Stories and totalitarianism” from the index on censorship March 1988
- Adrian Vermeule – “Who Decides?” on The Post Liberal Order substack
- Rupa Subramanya – “What the Truckers Want” on Common Sense substack by Bari Weiss
- pairs nicely with Kathleen Brodsky’s “The Chants of the Freedom Convoy” on her Random Minds substack
JN
Books
- De Gemeenteraad: Ontstaan en Ontwikkeling van de Lokale Democratie – Vollaard et al. (2018)
- The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution – Slezkine (2017)
- The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe – Mazower (2021)
- Cairo: The City Victorious – Rodenbeck (2007 [1998])
Selected article, blog posts, podcasts
- Yasmeen Serhan – “The Russian Incursion No One Is Talking About” on The Atlantic
- Mick Blok – “Het rapport van de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid ontkent de strategie” on Joop
- Alex Vershini -“Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics and the Fait Accompli” on War on the Rocks
- Maura Reynolds -“Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes” on Politico.com
- Ezra Klein – “Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Adam Tooze” on the New York Times
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