Another Failed Utopia | The American Conservative “suppressing religion does not mean it ceases to control thinking and behaviour. Like repressed sexual desire, faith returns, often in grotesque forms, to govern the lives of those who deny it.”

Secrets of the Schools That Create Math Geniuses “while boys who qualified for elite math competitions came from a broad range of schools all over the country, the majority of the girls chosen for such contests came from only about 20 schools.”

The Problem Of Moralism Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

RSA Animate: The Truth About Dishonesty theRSAorg

The scale of startup ambition Jason Kottke, kottke.org

You’ll never be Chinese

David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Who is speaking for the poor? | Felix Salmon “The Republicans clearly are the party of the 1%, and the Democrats are trying to paint themselves as the party of the middle class — of the 59%, you might say. But no one is standing up for the bottom 40%, the invisible poor, partly because […]

The politicians-are-failing theory of unemployment Ezra Klein, Wonkblog

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