[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Crooked Timber's Tedra Osell gives a very positive review of a monograph by Ari Kelman describing the long, complicated process of memorializing the United States' Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho in 1864.


• Daniel Drezner thinks that arguments the liberal world order hasn't been working well post-2008 are wrong, not least because they rest on the assumption that things were going well before then.


• Eastern Approaches notes that political cohabitation in Georgia between President Mikheil Saakashvili and new Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and the Georgian Dream opposition isn't working because the two sides are so divided on, well, everything.


• GNXP's Razib Khan argues that lifting China's one-child policy wouldn't change fertility rates, which a) were declining before the policy's imposition and b) are now as low as elsewhere in East Asia.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer writes about the Chavez-era changes to the Venezuelan military. His take? In general, these reforms, which include the entrenchment of a popular militia with links to Chavez's revolutionary institutions and efforts at conscription, are confused.


• Torontoist's Chris Riddell notes the multiple failed plans before the final, successful, 2006 plan to transform the Don Valley Brick Works into something.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr, who on the Aaron Swartz case has generally been critical of the arguments made by his supporters, recommends to his readers the long articles he thinks provide the best overviews on the case. Controversy ensues in the comments and on Twitter.


• Window on Eurasia reports on the resurgence of Buddhism in Russia, especially in the traditionally Buddhist republics of Kalmykia and Buryatia, and its implications on links with Mongolia.