Aravind Ganesh (Max Planck): Unilateral Jurisdiction to Provide Global Public Goods: A Republican Account. Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who was captured by ISIS, just won the Nobel Peace Prize; Denis Mukwege, a Congolese surgeon who treats victims of rape, also won the honor. “I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine”. Don’t let the battle over Kavanaugh overshadow the Nobel Peace Prize’s recognition of sexual violence. The jocks will inherit the earth: What we learned from the Kavanaugh ordeal. Why westerners fear robots and the Japanese do not. Here’s what allows conspiracy theories to take root on the Right. “This is delusional”: Tom Stevenson on the Khashoggi affair. Tyler Cowen on why William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the Nobel Prize in economics.
