The Problem of Undertheorized Agrarianism in Most Actually Argued Localism by Russell Arben Fox Front Porch Republic

The generalized resource curse "The global economy is succumbing to a technologically-driven resource curse, coalescing into groups of insiders and outsiders and people fighting at the margins not to be left behind."

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The Tragedies of Other Places “It is this greater poignancy of attacks in America that begs the question of whether the world’s allocations of sympathy are determined not by the magnitude of a tragedy—the numbers dead and injured—but by the contrast between a society’s normal and the cruel aftermath of a terrorist event.”

Subsistence economies and surplus economies by Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution

Ask Dreher Anything: Conservatives And France by Andrew Sullivan The Dish

A Kinder, Gentler Atheism by Andrew Sullivan The Dish

Interview – Author Cal Newport on how you can become an expert and why you should *not* follow your passion by Eric Barker Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Karen Armstrong on Silence “Apophatic or ‘speechless’ theology is often called ‘negative’, because it helps us to realise that when we encounter transcendence we have reached the end of what words can do. It is a habit of mind that we have lost sight of in our talkative age of information, and this has made […]