A Baker's Dozen of Fairly-Recent Links

Michael Br��ning: Germany���s Socialism of Fools : "By adopting a program based on "identity and solidarity," Germany's far-right AfD is harking back to classic National Socialism. It is likely to be a winning formula in this month's state elections in Bavaria and Hesse...
Anjana Ahuja: Climate catastrophe warnings were greeted with global silence : "hortsighted folly of ignoring the IPCC will lead to drastic future policies...
Brad W. Setser: Russia, China, and (the Absence of) Global Funding of the U.S. Fiscal Deficit���
Robert Wilde: The Chevauch��e: Organised Medieval Murder
5, N.S. Gill: Rome 1st Century B.C. Chronology
Wikipedia: Legio X Equestris
Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer: A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility
Timur Kuran and��Dani Rodrik: The Economic Costs of Erdo��an : "For more than a decade, financial markets gave Recep Tayyip Erdo��an the benefit of the doubt and supplied the Turkish economy with easy credit. Such debt-fueled growth almost always ends badly, and now it has...
Wikipedia: Peace of Westphalia
William Shakespeare: The Second part of King Henry the Fourth
Daniel W. Drezner (20070: The New New World Order
(2004): Eric Alterman Told Us So
Matthew Buckley: @physicsmatt : "Are we going to do anything about our allies murding a journalist? No, because a) Prince Jared still needs a loan, and b) murdering journalists is a GOP party plank now. All the US will do is ask the Saudis for how-to tips...