From Lost, a special issue on the digital future. From 3 Quarks Daily, Evert Cilliers on The Capitalist Manifesto: How to Modernize Capitalism from Feudalism to Democracy. From Cif, do we expect too much of our leaders? A debate. A review of What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost by Ben Wilson (and more and more). From The Economist, dispatches from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the most diverse region on earth. Beryl Korot and her co-founders of Radical Software sensed they had a unique chance to have a powerful impact on the future. From The Objective Standard, an article on Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution. The Good Soldier: An article on Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. An interview with Paul Krugman on the fear for lost decade. From Wired, dual perspectives on the future of social media: The fatal flaw with all the social media sites — MySpace, Facebook, Twitter — is that they are all separate services, but that may all be about to change, and soon; and is a Tweet the new size of a thought? From n+1, a review of Naomi S. Baron's Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World; Henry Jenkins's Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide; and Lee Siegel's Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electron.
