From Prospect, the influential moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has long stood outside the mainstream — has the financial crisis finally vindicated his critique of global capitalism? The northernmost mosque in North America officially opened in Inuvik, a town of 3,300 people north of the Arctic Circle. A hipster’s paradise: In the late 1990s, a down-at-heel ’hood in New York’s Lower East Side became an enclave for rich white kids — they were like a new ethnic arrival (and more). Hello, Newman: A lieutenant's deployment blog says Iraq’s easy, but skip the breakfast burritos. Tim Wu on Ted Turner, the Alexander the Great of Television. Peter Singer on clarity about diamonds. From the Nazis to the US presidential campaign of 2008, choosing which font to use has been anything but simple — and always political. Luciano Floridi on how to update your personal online identity. "I had an abortion" in 140 characters or less: An exchange with Steph Herold and Aspen Baker. It’s hard to imagine a longer or more pressing “to do” list than that of Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. From NYRB, Jonathan Raban on those damned Seattle liberals! An interview with Jenn Pozner about the reality of reality TV. Look on the bright side: Things are better than they seem — honest (and more). Has the world already passed “peak oil”? New analysis pegs 2006 as highpoint of conventional crude production. Greg Ip on 5 myths about the Fed. Sarah Palin was certainly not the first person to use the word "refudiate" — in fact, it has come up in enough other places over the past hundred and twenty years that it seems fair to ask why it isn’t in the dictionary already. GOP to jobless: Drop dead. Antimatter atoms have been trapped for the first time — "a big deal", but no applications for bombs, energy sources, or engines.
