Catching the pest
How China won and Russia lost. An interesting read on the driving factors behind China’s apparent economic success and Russia’s failure, while implementing seemingly similar policies. The gist of it is that many of China’s reforms came bottom-up, gradually making their evolving from rural agrarian practices, while Russia’s reforms used a top-down government mandated approach.
Moyers and David Simon
Bill Moyers interviews David Simon, mostly centred around The Wire and the current state of society in America.
The best voting technology
The best voting technology may be no technology at all, an old Cringely article featuring our glorious Canadian system: pencil and paper.
