News and views noted along the way.
- Real fake news
- Those Media Hysterics Who Said Obama’s Presidency Was Dead Were Wrong. Again. – “What explains for this even-worse-than-usual excitability? Much of it has to do with the age-old who’s-up-who’s down, permanent-campaign tendencies of the political media, exacerbated by a profusion of polling, daily tipsheets and Twitter. Overlaid on this is our obsession with the presidency, which leads us both to inflate the aura of the office and to view periods of tribulation as some sort of existential collapse.”
- The Road to Genocide – “The ancient Christian communities of Syria, having survived the rise of Islam in the seventh century and the fall of Constantinople in the fifteenth may be driven into the sea in the twenty-first.”
- Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience – “This report offers guidance about adopting subjective well-being measures in official government surveys to inform social and economic policies and considers whether research has advanced to a point which warrants the federal government collecting data that allow aspects of the population’s subjective well-being to be tracked and associated with changing conditions.”
- ”There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show’ - “The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered a coruscating speech about the divide between rich and poor in America, and how capitalism has lost sight of its social compact.”
- Racing has a Ponzi scheme – and the fallout will be enormous
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