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The Grand Gameshow Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution

Barcelona’s secret to soccer success

Charles Moore | Is Conservatism In Crisis? – Capitalism Should Not Be Run By Capitalists | The European Magazine – The Opinion Magazine Mervyn King said that “the big banks are global in life but national in death.” They come home to die, and we have to pay for their funeral.

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An open letter to college admissions committees “The solution I propose is comprehensive exams at the end of each course, much like Advanced Placement exams, that thoroughly and objectively distinguish students on merit alone. The emphasis in each classroom would then shift from fighting the teacher for high grades to cooperating with the teacher to […]

New Statesman – Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion The fixation on belief is most prominent in western Christianity, where it results mainly from the distorting influence of Greek philosophy. Continuing this obsession, modern atheists have created an evangelical cult of unbelief. Yet the core of most of the world’s […]

BMcCarthy32 Sometimes the air ducts and computers will talk to you, which makes you so tired that the boss gets mad? #japan http://t.co/7ZazeGrs

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