From Media for Freedom, an essay on the political economy of love and the eradication of extreme poverty in the world. The maladies of affluence: The poor world is getting the rich world's diseases. The Politics of a Health Crisis: Alex de Waal on why AIDS is not threatening African governance. Deepak Lal on happiness, growth and capitalism. The mandarins of money: Central banks in the rich world no longer determine global monetary conditions. The Arctic killers By Marek Kohn The scramble for the Arctic's oil and gas has begun. In this most sensitive of environments, the plunderers count on climate change for help.
From Harvard International Review, Hemispheric Echoes: A look at the reverberations of Latin American Populism; The Great Transformation: An article on Latin America’s political economy of the possible; an interview with Steven Levitsky, author of Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America; and an article on reinventing integration of Muslims in the West. A review of Secularism Confronts Islam by Olivier Roy. From Middle East Online, Athens or Jerusalem: It is the task of cultural studies to take the courageous path and diagnose and analyze the maladies of our culture: to bring back to light the whole generation of Athens philosophers that had foreseen the degeneration of the West 100 years ago.
From CJR, a look at the Good-Citizen Quiz: What Americans know; and an article on The Greenhouse Effect: Hurricane Linda blows C-SPAN cameras away. Morals of a Muckraker: Dan Moldea tracks down peccadilloes of the powerful like the news hound he is. He says it's on principle. Stark raving mad: While the national media can sometimes be a lamb, Mike Stark, left-wing blogger, is always a lion. All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print: The Weekly World News is folding. Brian Tierney, who aggressively pushed to buy The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News, represents what some say offers the best hope of survival for many papers: the return of the local press baron.
