Links for Tuesday 3 May 2011
- A New Theory of Justice by Samuel Freeman | The New York Review of Books
- Starts with a good summary of John Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’, then Amartya Sen’s critique of that, then the article’s author, Samuel Freeman’s, critique of that. But subscribers only, booo.
- The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books
- If I ever see ‘Waiting for “Superman”’, I should read this again. A relentless critique of the film’s arguments for US charter schools over public schools, probably applicable to the UK’s academies too.
- All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
- An overview by Bill McKibben of the good bits of American public radio, comparing radio to other media, outlining its difficulties. Some things I should listen to, given the time.
- Foreign Aid for Scoundrels by William Easterly | The New York Review of Books
- Given the recent distancing of organisations from Gadafi, who turned out to be a “bad” dictator, rather than a “good” one, reading this article from November 2010 about the billions in aid the West gives to many dictatorships with no meaningful requirements for reforms is funny (as in “not funny”).
- Religious Faith and John Rawls by Kwame Anthony Appiah | The New York Review of Books
- Tracing John Rawls’ changing ideas from “the eternal claims of Christianity,” through ‘A Theory of Justice’s “appealing to the universal truths of reason,” to deriving ideals from the “shared consensus of democratic citizens.” (Subscribers only.)
- TimeRime.com - Homepage
- Create your own (Flash-based) timelines. You know when you have an idea for a site and then you find something that sort of does it, but not quite how you wanted?
- YouTube - The Netizen
- Finally able to transfer my previously Google Video-hosted copy of the 1996/7 Wired TV pilot programme to YouTube. Whatever happened to cyber-rights?
- I will commit £23.32 per month to a citizen-run news service for Leeds… – Matt Edgar
- Interesting… trying to get a regular, quality, local, online news-site funded. Not by individual readers paying, or by one deep-pocketed entity paying, but something in between. (via gilest)