2012/05/13

Seemingly within the realm of conspiracy theory, but:

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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed | News | The Week UK : "Typical was the headline on a short article that ran in...
2012/05/05

The 911 Wars by Jason Burke, and The Don Camillo Omnibus by Giovanni Guareschi

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I read about The 9/11 Wars by Jason Burke on Tim Bray's blog and thought "that sounds interesting", and so it is. I'm abo...

What conditions give rise to great artistic achievements? Wealth, urban centers, belief in God. Wait: What?

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20120513:See update below Future tense, IX: Out of the wilderness by Charles Murray - The New Criterion : "Upon reading Daniel Boor...
2012/03/08

Phillip K. Dick: where all those wonderful books came from

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LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Exegete: "There are, in fact, numerous ways to find a trail through this wilderness of crazed specul...
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2012/02/21

Towards a politicisation of Hello Kitty: a first look what's involved :-)

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I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream – The New Inquiry: "Why doesn’t Hello Kitty have a mouth? Is its absence more than an expedient, min...
2012/02/16

How we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities

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“I See Everything Through This Tragedy” | The Interrupters | FRONTLINE | PBS "At 10:45 on the night of March 13, 2009, Rodney Orange wa...
2012/02/15

How to Read a Poem, by Terry Eagleton

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I thought this book would be good to read since I knew very little about poetry; in many ways I still do, but I think I've been made mor...

The Islamist, by Ed Husain

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I read this book having thought a long time ago "that sounds interesting", and it was. What strikes me is how modern the roots of ...

Does globalisation make it harder for us to avoid confronting the moral consequences of our lifestyles?

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rc3.org - Our moral complicity in China’s working conditions: "Lately, working conditions in Chinese factories that produce consumer e...

Debt: the first 5000 years: two reviews

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The book comes highly recommended, and there are two reviews, one in Guernica and one in The New Inquiry , both of which are apparently ver...
2012/02/08

A reminder that todays capitalism has lost its mission:

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Hudson: The Neo-Rentier Economy : "What is called “capitalism” is best understood as a series of stages. Industrial Capitalism has give...
2012/01/26

Information overload or information gluttony? Let's not ignore our own agency.

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Gluttony Goes Viral - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education : If you ignore the gratuitous slam at 'hipsters' and...

Europe has, in some ways, reacted no better than America to the threat of terrorism

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Europe’s Own Human Rights Crisis | Human Rights Watch: "To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most t...
2012/01/19

The Judeo-Christian origin of modern Human Rights

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As a result of a very interesting discussion with a friend of mine... The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization...
2012/01/13

Humanity writ large reflected in the tools of the day:

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How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker "[...] at any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of ...