Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Deadly Medicine, Vanity Fair, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link 
  • The globalization of the pharmaceutical industry.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Timothy Noah, Why No More 9/11s?, slate.com, 2009

Rating: 4/5 Link
  • First published:
  • Why the dire predictions of a 9/11 sequel proved untrue and reviewing the literature on this question. Eight prevailing theories whose implications range from fairly reassuring to deeply worrying.
  1. The Terrorists-Are-Dumb theory.
  2. The Near-Enemy theory.
  3. The Melting-Pot theory.
  4. The Burden-Of-Success theory.
  5. The Flypaper theory.
  6. The He-Kept-Us-Safe theory.
  7. The Electoral-Cycles theory.
  8. The Time-Space theory.