Decius wrote: These articles are short and to the point. ... Unfortunately, many require a subscription to read in full.
I was able to locate alternate sources for the full text of some articles that were walled off at the magazine's web site. Along the way I also found a few other items of potential interest. A Patently Simple Idea By Sebastian Mallaby Fighting Poverty: What Works? Esther Duflo: "Sometimes ideas that become conventional wisdom are erroneous and need to be rethought."
Another day, another $1.08 According to Mr Banerjee and Ms Duflo, the typical poor household in Udaipur could spend up to 30% more on food than it does, if only it stopped devoting money to alcohol, tobacco and festivals.
Save the Russians! By Nicholas Eberstadt [alt]
Time for a Sea Change By Paul Saffo Why We Listen By Philip Bobbitt A president does have an obligation to assess the constitutionality of statutes, but when he secretly decides a measure is unconstitutional and neglects to say so (much less why), he undermines the very system of public consent for which we are fighting. Having said that, we also must not be so absorbed by questions of statutory construction that we ignore the revolutionary political and technological events that are transforming the world in which our laws must function.
Jeffrey D. Sachs Gives The 2007 BBC Reith Lectures: Bursting at the Seams, April 11- May 9, 2007 Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world faces challenges on an unprecedented scale - the destruction of the planet through global warming, terrorism, extreme poverty, disease and bad governance.
Excerpts from Spokesmen for the Despised; Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East, Edited by R. Scott Appleby The word fundamentalism, therefore, aptly describes the basic method of the modern religious leader who reaches into the sacred past, selects and develops politically useful (if sometimes obscure) teachings or traditions, and builds around these so-called fundamentals an ideology and a program of action. What we mean by fundamentalism, in other words, is the blending of traditional religion and its politicized, ideological defense.
John Arquilla: Iraq war has other ill effects; Damage to the U.S. is certain to endure Even while attention is focused on our troubled military campaign in Iraq, we should be thinking about the other enduring problems caused by American fumbling there, including the growth of terrorist networks, the wearing out of our armed forces, and the grave damage done to our reputation.
The Stephen Lewis Foundation SLF helps to ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa at the grassroots level. It provides care to women who are ill and struggling to survive; assists orphans and other AIDS affected children; supports heroic grandmothers who almost single-handedly care for their orphan grandchildren; and supports associations of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Exit From Iraq Should Be Through Iran, by William E. Odom
The Upside of Down, by Thomas Homer-Dixon The Upside of Down sets out a theory of the growth, crisis, and renewal of societies. Today's converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet there are things we can do now to keep such a breakdown from being catastrophic. And some kinds of breakdown could even open up extraordinary opportunities for creative, bold reform of our societies, if we're prepared to exploit these opportunities when they arise.
Conflict in a Nonlinear World: Complex Adaptation at the Intersection of Energy, Climate, and Security; by Thomas Homer-Dixon Although the premises of complexity theory appear to inform this symposium, elsewhere a conventional mechanistic ontology -- and a concomitant "management" approach to policy -- underpin thinking about war, peace, and international security. This ontology assumes that conflict systems have relatively easily discernible boundaries, that the behavior of a system is an additive consequence of the behavior of its parts, that effect is proportional to cause, that it is possible to discriminate among multiple causes in terms of their causal power, and that the "gold standard" of explanation involves the identification of a single, necessary and sufficient cause of a given phenomenon. These assumptions are often invalid. Conflict systems are often fundamentally "complex" in that they are characterized by feedbacks, causal openness, causal synergy (interactivity), disproportionality of cause and effect (i.e., nonlinear behavior), and contingency.
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