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Urban Plight: Vanishing Upward Mobility
nedelja, 5. september 2010 
American - In the twenty-first century—the first in which the majority of people will live in cities—this unique link between urbanism and upward mobility is under threat. Urban boosters still maintain that big cities remain unique centers for social uplift, but evidence suggests this is increasingly no longer the case. [...]
Busted: Stories of the Financial Crisis
nedelja, 5. september 2010 
Nation - Among the many acronyms of the great bailout, certainly the most significant were TARP and TALF. Different in many regards, they share a core purpose: to assist in the purchase of "toxic assets" that are otherwise unsellable. The market, functioning freely as Hayek would have hoped, has assigned a value to these assets: zero. [...]
If science has not actually killed God, it has rendered Him unrecognisable
sobota, 4. september 2010 
Independent - In the scientific universe, God is squeezed until his pips squeak. If he survives, then he can't do so without changing his form. Only faith makes it possible to look at such a distorted, scientifically respectable deity and claim to recognise the same chap depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For those without faith, that God is clearly dead, and, yes, science helped to kill him. [...]
America’s Ruling Class – And the Perils of Revolution
sobota, 4. september 2010 
American Spectator - How did America change from a place where people could expect to live without bowing to privileged classes to one in which, at best, they might have the chance to climb into them? What sets our ruling class apart from the rest of us? [...]
Searching for Germany’s Right-Wing Populists
sobota, 4. september 2010 
Spiegel - Right-wing populist parties are everywhere in Europe. But in Germany, home to controversial Islamophobe Thilo Sarrazin, the right side of the country's political landscape would appear to be sparsely populated. Why? [...]
Not dead yet
sobota, 4. september 2010 
presseurop - US political scientist Charles Kupchan’s pronouncement of the death of the EU has caused quite a stir in Europe. The handling of the euro crisis shows, however, that, despite all the recent trials and tribulations, EU integration is still forging ahead, argues Il Sole 24 Ore. [...]
Conspiracy theories are corroding our society
sobota, 4. september 2010 
Guardian - Conspiracy theories are often dismissed as a harmless irritation. The idea that all is not as it seems, that a small cabal of powerful people control world events has always been with us. But in recent years they have become a widespread and influential cultural phenomenon. In some contexts, they may have serious social implications. [...]
Has Rupert Murdoch’s paywall gamble paid off?
četrtek, 2. september 2010 
Independent - There are many who still wish the 79-year-old mogul well, hopeful that he is at the vanguard of a cultural shift that will save newspapers. Yet elsewhere there is dismay among analysts, advertisers, publicists and even some reporters on the papers. [...]
The web’s new walls
četrtek, 2. september 2010 
Economist - The internet is so large and so widely used that countries, companies and network operators want to wall bits of it off, or make parts of it work in a different way, to promote their own political or commercial interests. Net is losing some of its openness and universality. Suggesting that “The Web is Dead”, as Wired magazine did recently, is going a bit far. [...]
Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
četrtek, 2. september 2010 
Chronicle - Destructive cultural trends lurk behind the decline of readerly ambition and student stamina. One is the expanding cultural bias in all writerly media toward clipped, hit-friendly brevity—no longer the soul of wit, but metric-driven pith in lieu of wit. [...]
Profesija – pripadnik
četrtek, 2. september 2010 
Vreme - /by Teofil Pančić/ Određene forme "multikulturalizma" su način da nacionalizam, doduše pomalo okrezubljen, bezbedno preživi ova vremena. Kao pripadnik kodifikovane "manjine", osobito etničke, trebalo bi da sav svoj politički identitet gradite na samoj činjenici pripadnosti određenom "manjinskom" etnosu. [...]
Will Russia’s Bloggers Survive Censorship Push?
četrtek, 2. september 2010 
Spiegel - With so many of their media sources controlled by the state or government-friendly oligarchs, Russians have turned to their bloggers to keep informed and give voice to their grievances and concerns. But many of those in power are now seeking to impose rigid limits on online freedom. [...]
Is Low-Wage China Disappearing?
sreda, 1. september 2010 
Project Syndicate - /by Fan Gang/ While cheap labor has been a key factor in generating high growth over the past three decades, it has also contributed to profound income disparities, especially in recent years. And persistent, widening inequality might cause social crises that could interrupt growth and damage competitiveness. [...]
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
sreda, 1. september 2010 
NY Times - Some 50 years ago Roman Jakobson pointed out a crucial fact about differences between languages: “Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.” If different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about. [...]
Aid wars
sreda, 1. september 2010 
Eurozine - /New Humanist/ Humanitarian activists' refusal of politics, combined with their willingness to identify with politics, elicits doubt and even scorn from human-rights critics. Susie Linfield evaluates the controversial debate on the future of humanitarianism. [...]
Don’t be afraid of China
sreda, 1. september 2010 
presseurop - /De Standaard/ As the number two power in the global economy, China's rapid development is a major worry for the other high-stakes players like the United States and Europe. However, China's growth is beneficial to European companies, and like Japan in the 1970's and 80's, it does not constitute the threat that so many fear it does. [...]
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