June 2011
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G. Packer, 'A Dirty Business: New York City’s top... →
Today’s New Yorker runs a brilliant piece on Wall Street white-collar crime. As with all good journalists, George Packer presents a compelling narrative that moves from the specific to the general. In this instance, the specific is the story behind the largest (prosecuted) case of insider-trading in the history of Wall Street; that of Raj Rajaratnam and a multibillion-dollar hedge fund...
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W. Munchau,'Europe's Fragile Bonds', Prospect →
Wolfgang Munchau, associate editor of the Financial Times and president of Eurointelligence Bureau, considers the likelihood of future eurozone cohesion in the face of potential Greek default in this month’s Prospect Magazine. Necessary reading.
The eurozone is based on three pillars: loopholes, fudges and lies. They made this crisis inevitable. The propensity to fudge now makes any real...
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A. Curtis, 'The Baby and the Baath Water' →
As with his documentaries — most recently, ‘All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace’ — Adam Curtis’s blog, The Medium and the Message, is well worth digesting if you have time and energy enough to do so. His latest post explores how Syria’s recent history — or, more precisely, Western efforts to manipulate that history — has influenced the...
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J. Carter, 'Call Off the Global Drug War'
“In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade. The commission includes the former presidents or prime ministers of five countries, a former secretary general of the United Nations, ...
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A.C. Grayling, 'In Defence of New College'
The philosopher A.C. Grayling is founding a new university in London. Devoted to the humanities and offering tuition from such notable public intellectuals as Niall Ferguson and Richard Dawkins, (though the latter has distanced himself from the project), ‘New College’ purports to follow the United States’ model of higher education and will charge fees of £18,000 a year, (or 600%...
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S. Lee, 'The National Trust doesn't even trust us... →
[A]s a National Trust member, the speaking celebrity bench scheme causes me to contemplate the cliche of dumbing down. (As does the Trust’s website for Felbrigg Hall, inviting visitors to “look in the library, the ‘internet’ of the 18th century”. Were books only unevolved websites? Why is “internet” in inverted commas? And unless Felbrigg Hall ...
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