Still Tinkering

Still tinkering....

Nice readin's around the internets, though:

• Jack Balkin on the "end of the Yoo doctrine." We'll see. I'll come back to the torture issue soon.
• From October, Daniel Archibugi on the UN Declaration of Human Rights at the age of 60.
• That Foreign Policy in Focus piece that has made the rounds mainly for the suggestion that Republicans want to turn the US into a "Third World" country.
• A little debate at McKinsey between a carbon tax approach and a cap and trade approach to climate change mitigation.
• Roberto Mangabeira Unger, pragmatist philosopher and current Brazilian Minister of Strategic Affairs, discusses opportunities for reforming the market out of the current crisis.
• Fact Magazine lists their 20 greatest Colombian records of all time.
• A grad student sent this to me on the problems of Indian toilets. We did a course together last semester on the intersection of environment and development. One case we looked at was a study of locally-organized, participatory public toilet construction in the poorest neighborhoods of Bombay. If you want to understand local development issues anywhere, the toilet is a good place to start.
• Zipcar as transition to a new era?
• Chris Blattman directs us to this post discussing the ICC warrant on Sudan's President Bashir.
• Azra at 3QD links to an interesting interview with Dacher Keltner about his new book on the evolutionary basis of human kindness.
• Also via 3QD, a personal essay on the teetering of Pakistan by Moni Mohsin.
• No kidding: "Psychological toll of war extensive, Iraq studies find."
• Curious Expeditions on the mineral section at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History