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

The Broken Society

New York Times | 21 March 2010

The welfare state and the market state are now two defunct and mutually supporting failures.

Human Dignity and Higher Education

New Atlantis | 20 March 2010

American universities have lost their way.

Do airport full body scanners violate Islam?

Christian Science Monitor | 19 March 2010

Two groups say the devices are immodest, and therefore are inconsistent with Islam.

The net generation, unplugged

Economist | 19 March 2010

Is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives” who have grown up with the internet?

Privacy online

New York Times | 19 March 2010

.... is non-existent. Just get over it.

Vocabulary Size

New York Times | 19 March 2010

"Groak" means staring silently at someone while they eat. So I should be impressed?

Thank You For Not Expressing Yourself

New English Review | 19 March 2010

Theodore Dalrymple on why internet comments are a bad idea

The Case for Unpopular Clients

Wall Street Journal | 18 March 2010

Semands to name the 'al Qaeda seven' weaken the country's democratic ideals and an honourable tradition of fearless advocacy.

The top 20 most annoying book reviewer cliches and how to use them all in one meaningless review

Examiner | 18 March 2010

They're all here.

Vocabulary Size

New York Times | 17 March 2010

"Groak" means staring silently at someone while they eat. So I should be impressed?

Take This Job and Write It

New York Times | 16 March 2010

Why are there so few novels about the world of work?

Rescuers, Not Invaders

Wall Street Journal | 16 March 2010

The strange history of failed attempts to resist Islam's spread

How I found God and peace with my atheist brother

Mail on Sunday | 12 March 2010

Why Peter Hitchens believes and Christopher doesn't

The case against the hockey stick

Prospect | 12 March 2010

The "hockey stick" graph is a mainstay of global warming science. A new book tells of one man's efforts to dismantle it—and deserves to win prizes

Do You Miss Him Yet?

New York Times | 10 March 2010

W., that is. Stanley Fish, of all people, does.

Unwanted men, we need you to curb the welfare Amazons

London Times | 10 March 2010

We have stacked the deck against poor men, says a (woman) columnist.

Philosophers Rip Darwin

Chronicle of Higher Education | 10 March 2010

It's not just creationists who have doubts.

What Drives Us

City Journal | 09 March 2010

Fulfillment, not money, says Daniel Pink’s new study.

The Wizard

New York Review of Books | 09 March 2010

Is the most important influence upon Avatar the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz?

Why society should not tolerate suicide

Spiked | 09 March 2010

The right of anyone to take his life is being legitimated by the assisted-suicide campaign.

‘They Need to Be Liberated From Their God’

Wall Street Journal | 09 March 2010

The tangled moral life of a paid spy for Israel, Christian convert and son of Hamas founder.

Algebra in Wonderland

New York Times | 08 March 2010

Behind the weirdness of Lewis Carroll's classic.

The worldwide war on baby girls

The Economist | 08 March 2010

Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies

Waiting to hear ‘we’re sorry’

The Ottawa Citizen | 08 March 2010

Scientists are apologising for mistakes on global warming, why are journalists for defensive?

Where do atheists come from?

New Scientist | 08 March 2010

Time to accept that atheism, not God, is odd

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