More On Race and Politics - My take: when the chips are down, people look for someone or something to blame. For a good example of how xenophobia increases during economic hardship, see my post Mexican Repatriation: The Great Depression and Immigration Policy.
- James Webb: Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege – WSJ.com
- Post Racial White Flight – naked capitalism
- Bob Herbert – Shirley Sherrod, Thrown to the Wolves – NYTimes.com
- Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams kicked out over ‘Colored People’ letter
The Usual Fare
- Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma: Docs for Sale: The FDA Advisory Panel on Avandia
- Too Bad Not to Fail: an article by William J. Quirk | The American Scholar
- La crise de la dette souveraine fait une pause… avant de rebondir ailleurs? – Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE
- Evil weed in Baltic Sea puts marine life at risk – Nature, Environment – The Independent
- Who Ultimately Pays the Corporate Income Tax? – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com
- España aplica en su examen el mayor ajuste inmobiliario · ELPAÍS.com
- The u.s. middle class is being wiped out here’s the stats to prove it: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
- Chinese Central Bank Outlines Plan To Ditch The Dollar As The Yuan’s Peg – Business Insider
- BBC News – ‘World’s oldest champagne’ found on Baltic seabed
- Floyd Landis: ‘I saw Lance Armstrong using drugs’ – ESPN
- Does Language Influence Culture? – WSJ.com
- 40 Tage ohne Internet und Handy: "Ich spürte ständig ein Phantomvibrieren" | FTD.de
- Massenpanik bei der Love Parade: Zahl der Toten steigt auf 19 | FTD.de
- The Recalculation Story: A Summary, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Frank Rich – There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin’ – NYTimes.com
- Time for New Thinking on Stimulus | Capital Gains and Games
- Economist’s View: Why is the Obama Administration Blaming Environmentalists for Its Failures?
- Tragedy at German Techno Festival: At Least 15 Dead after Panic Breaks Out at Love Parade – SPIEGEL ONLINE
- Tim Duy’s Fed Watch: Anomalous Capacity Shrinkage
- France suspend all 23 members of World Cup squad for Norway friendly | Football | guardian.co.uk