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After hours and hours of exhausting surfing, we have found these useful links for MercatorNet readers.

Mao’s Great Famine

Literary Review | 08 September 2010

The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62.

America’s History of Fear

New York Times | 06 September 2010

Invective against Catholics in the 19th century sounds remarkably like anti-Muslim sentiment today.

We overreacted to 9/11

Newsweek | 06 September 2010

Nine years on, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is not that deadly a threat?

Giving away Dan Brown

The Economist | 06 September 2010

Charity givers donated more Dan Brown books to Oxfam than any other author but he was only number 10 on the list for most books sold.

The BBC worldview: the Pope and the Mosque

London Telegraph | 03 September 2010

If the mosque protestors are Islamophobes, then the anti-pope protestors are surely Cathophobes.

Cover story

Boston Globe | 03 September 2010

The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things?

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor. Really. We Mean It.

Slate | 03 September 2010

Economists are making the case politicians are afraid to: Immigration is great for the U.S.

The Generation That Can’t Move On Up

Wall Street Journal | 03 September 2010

Young working class adults are losing not only jobs but also their connections to basic social institutions such as marriage and religion.

The Case for Boredom

New Atlantis | 01 September 2010

Stimulation, Civility, and Modern Boyhood

How to feed the world

The Economist | 31 August 2010

The emerging conventional wisdom about world farming is gloomy. Brasil shows there is an alternative .

Something to Love Among the Ruins

City Journal | 31 August 2010

Three young architects offer a beautiful alternative to modernism’s ravages.

True Barbarians

Policy Review | 31 August 2010

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity

The Financial Crisis and the Scientific Mindset

New Atlantis | 31 August 2010

The breakdown of the sovereignty of technique has been masked by government intervention.

I lay paralysed and unable to speak for 18 months…

Daily Mail | 30 August 2010

but my family's unyielding love brought about a true miracle

Bleat, flay, loathe ...

Vancouver Sun | 27 August 2010

...one man's search for God on a Cineplex screen.

Power couple

Boston Globe | 27 August 2010

Two presidents, two speeches — and a profound question about the American military that has yet to be answered

What’s wrong with weddings

Guardian | 26 August 2010

The modern wedding is a celebration of the ego, which is the biggest enemy of the subsequent marriage

A Perfect Game

First Things | 26 August 2010

The metaphysical meaning of baseball

The Tyranny of Guilt

Guardian | 25 August 2010

Europe spends too much time apologising for past sins rather than weighing its future

Modernity’s Uninvited Guest

City Journal | 24 August 2010

Civilization makes progress, but evil persists, writes Theodore Dalrymple.

What’s It Like to Be a Tourist in North Korea?

Foreign Policy | 24 August 2010

How the Hermit Kingdom is and is not like Mordor.

Orang-utans are not remotely like humans

Spiked | 24 August 2010

Experts should know better than to claim that great apes can communicate in a similar way to human beings.

Why Cordoba?

Tablet Magazine | 22 August 2010

The Ground Zero Islamic center was named for a period in Spanish-Muslim history that some call a golden age of tolerance

The child in time

The Economist | 20 August 2010

Thirty years on, some want to scrap China's repressive one-child policy. The problem may be to get people to have more—not fewer—babies.

Why Doesn’t the World Care About Pakistanis?

Foreign Policy | 20 August 2010

Because they live in Pakistan.

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