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The price of entry

From The Qualitative Report, Debra J. Slone (USF): Visualizing Qualitative Information; and Lilla Vicsek (Corvinus): Issues in the Analysis of Focus Groups: Generalisability, Quantifiability, Treatment of Context and Quotations. The logs of war: Do the Wikileaks documents really tell us anything new? An article on David Harvey's Urban Manifesto: Down with suburbia; down with Bloomberg's New York. Peter Jukes discusses history, life and justice with Tony Judt, master of morally charged rhetoric. Johann Hari on the enduring truth-telling of Noam Chomsky. From The Economist, a special report on debt: Borrowing has been the answer to all economic troubles in the past 25 years — now debt itself has become the problem. A review of The Uses of Pessimism: and the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton (and more). The price of entry: A new proposal from Gary Becker to make a market in immigration. Fred Kaplan on the most frightening thing about our unfathomably complex intelligence bureaucracy. From The Paris Review, an interview with Ben Glenn II on the history of canned laughter. From The Washington Post, Dennis Culhane on five myths about America's homeless and David Garland on five myths about the death penalty. From Ralph, a look at some of the most beloved paradoxes. From Atlas Obscura, an article on Passetto di Borgo, the Pope’s secret escape route. Flights and fancy: G. Curtis Hoskins on how to degauss a cat.