London in the 21st Century
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Writing in the Daily Telegraph, here’s Damian Thompson with a terrible
story about superstition and murder in contemporary London: A 15-year-old
boy is tor...
Is Mandarin The Language Of The Future?
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Nope, says Robert Lane Greene: Fewer and fewer native speakers learn to
produce characters in traditional calligraphy. Instead, they write their
language t...
Seeing the Light
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A Conservative MEP joins Britain’s Euroskeptic UKIP. The BBC has some of
the details:
MEP Roger Helmer has defected from the Conservative Party to the UK...
Republicans sing the home-state blues
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Losing your home state just doesn't project an image of strength or
likability.
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Russia Primed for Strife after Sunday Elections
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By Andrei Illarionov
Sunday’s so-called “presidential election” inRussia will be neither free
nor fair. Prospective candidates like Leonid Ivashov or Grig...
Cathy Young on Islam, Free Speech, and Democracy
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The story that flew around the blogosphere last week was guaranteed to
cause an uproar: A Muslim assaults an atheist for mocking Mohammed, and a
Muslim ...
When Will it Stop? (Guest Voice)
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When Will it Stop? by Michael Reagan When will they stop asking Republicans
like me about our party’s choice for vice president? In every presidential
elec...
A Question on Posthumous Baptism
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If posthumous baptism is a laudable spiritual practice, then I propose a
shortcut. The Mormons could save a little time and just baptize me right
away. No,...
Getting Ready to Buy a House
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In the comments to my colleague's excellent post, one thing did surprise
me: the era of the tiny…
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James Q. Wilson, honored prophet
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The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would
occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the
White House...
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Matt Yglesias Has Moved
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Matt Yglesias has left ThinkProgress to join Slate, where he writes the
“Moneybox” blog. You can check it out here. We wish Matt continued success
and than...
Obama Will Speak at Barnard Graduation
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President Obama is facing re-election this fall at a time when women’s
issues and women’s votes have been taking center stage.
Criminal Case on Costa Concordia Wreck Opens
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Lawyers and survivors of the Costa Concordia accident converged on Saturday
for the first evidence hearing in the case against the ship’s captain and
other...
Lost in the Dithos
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I like to imagine an alternative universe where the mouthpiece for movement
conservatism possesses a keen intellect and a mordant wit, instead of being
a c...
Furor Over Report Hints at a Chinese Policy Debate
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The fierce reaction to the World Bank assessment of China's
state-capitalism system hints at a ferocious debate within the government
as the nation prepare...
This Station is Non-Operational
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I’m actually way more excited about Windows 8 than I am about anything
Apple is doing right now.
This interview with the female stars of *Community* is ...
Link exchange
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TODAY'S recommended economics writing:
• Mark Thoma puts the most bizarre picture in my mind... (Brad DeLong)
• The microfoundation thing (Paul Krugman)
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Our great moral decline
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ASKED to explain his support for Rick Santorum in Michigan's primary,
voter Sandy Munro said, "Now what we need is a strong political leader to
do someth...
Cantor 'stunned' by Virginia Tech shootings
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday that he was
“saddened and stunned” at the news that two people, including a poli
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Pad tie
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The price of Apple's tablet computer, before sales tax, varies
significantly between countries
IF YOU fly from Hong Kong to Frankfurt or Paris and look s...
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