Another brilliant, apropos essay, and again paywalled. :(

I don't think you can use Google to jump the paywall with the NYRB like you can with the WSJ:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/07/mysterious-brilliant-frederick-douglass/

Paywalled, alas...

But this piece is amazingly apropos of Tuesday's lecture:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/britains-canvas-wings-1458328576

"Contact" between highly differential cultures in the contemporary world. Amazing story.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/world/asia/india-jarawas-child-murder.html?_r=1&referer=

And another....

This one is a different kind of model based in technological change, but I think that, in a bank-shot sort of way, it also sets up an economic model of historical causation that is worth thinking about:

https://stratechery.com/2016/the-voters-decide/

Those discussions last night on how to talk about politics without it being so frustrating?

I think this is an excellent first pass at modeling an economic causation to current politics

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/opinion/campaign-stops/why-trump-now.html