Linkage

Nov 17, 2008 05:15

A nice A-Ha parody video.

A campaign to have the right to marry cartoon characters.

A new blog by two ANU academies on mainland SE Asia.

Arguing pro and con for a league of democracies.

Camille Paglia’s collection of poetry made it onto the US best-seller lists: she writes about poetry.

Reviewing a book on the new forms of anti-Semitism.

On the importance of moral arguments in public debate.

Details of a book published by a retired academic of Polish background on Stalin, Stalinism and the human costs thereof. Defining different forms of socialism: (the claim that Nazism had no elements of socialism is a little over-stated).

The Beijing regime cracks down on dissent in Tibet.

Author Michael Crichton dies. Appreciating work and his unusual life. Appreciating his fun with ideas.

Chinese official sacked for molesting a girl after public pressure.

Reviewing a book which critiques humanitarian aid and its organizations as spreaders of Western values and being complicit in Western interventions.

aid, links, racism

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