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

Sources of American renewal

Claremont Review of Books | 20 August 2010

Back to the frontier; back to Lincoln

How to Win the Clash of Civilizations

Wall Street Journal | 19 August 2010

The key advantage of Huntington's famous model is that it describes the world as it is—not as we wish it to be.

Who’s the Happiest?

The Daily Beast | 18 August 2010

In theory, a married born-again Christian orthodontist who lives in Costa Rica.

Superheroes, please, not positive role models

London Telegraph | 17 August 2010

Leave Iron Man alone. He's only as brutal and bling-laden as his comic-book ancestors.

The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity

Wall Street Journal | 17 August 2010

Why young, Evangelical Christians are pouring out of their churches, never to return.

A Marriage Tail

Public Discourse | 17 August 2010

Re-examining the essential characteristics of marriage.

The Real Liberal Elite

American Prospect | 16 August 2010

Now that more liberals are as rich as Republicans, do we risk forgetting the poor and working families?

The Rise of the Parasite Singles

Slate | 15 August 2010

What Americans can learn from these macabre tales of mummified Japanese centenarians.

Glorious failures

Economist | 15 August 2010

Why bright ideas for fighting crime fail

Calling time on progress

Economist | 10 August 2010

Europeans thought they were progressing towards an ideal civilisation. Now time is up, and it hurts

The art of slow reading

Guardian | 10 August 2010

Has endlessly skimming short texts on the internet made us stupider?

Let me refudiate that

London Telegraph | 10 August 2010

What Sarah Palin has in common with Lewis Carroll and Shakespeare

Want to Fix Immigration? Give Noncitizens the Vote

Foreign Policy | 09 August 2010

A tiny step that could make a huge difference when it comes to immigration reform.

The billionaire boys: Beware of geeks bearing gifts

London Telegraph | 09 August 2010

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the world’s richest men are giving half their fortunes to charity – but there is a downside.

Surveying the Wreckage

City Journal | 05 August 2010

What can we learn from the top books on the financial crisis?

Rwanda’s redeemer or ruthless dictator?

London Telegraph | 03 August 2010

President Paul Kagame, the Rwandan hero who united a country torn by genocide, defends his approach to democracy

Why We Must Judge

Democracy | 03 August 2010

It’s not all relative: Without judgment, a society loses its sense of justice.

Catalonia bullfighting ban: Cornered by the cape crusaders?

London Telegraph | 03 August 2010

Bullfighting has withstood the criticisms of kings and Popes – but will the latest attacks succeed?

Is Chelsea Clinton Setting a Bad Example?

Wall Street Journal | 03 August 2010

A mercenary view of the big spend-up.

Conrad Black: My prison education

National Post | 02 August 2010

In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end.

What’s Wrong With the American University System

Atlantic | 30 July 2010

Let's cratch tenure, abolish football, emphasise teaching over research.

The rich are different from you and me

The Economist | 30 July 2010

They are more selfish - or so a study shows.

Goldman Sachs bans profanity in emails

Wall Street Journal | 30 July 2010

An 'Unlearnable Lesson' on Wall Street?

The backwardness of Catholic-bashing

Spiked | 30 July 2010

Far from being enlightened, the attacks on Catholicism ahead of the pope’s UK visit are illiberal, censorious and ignorant.

Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa’s Leaning Tower

London Telegraph | 29 July 2010

After defying gravity, Italian bureaucracy and accusations of corruption, it seems a British expert has finally cracked the case.

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