Friday’s Reading List
By Taylor Marvin
The best links of the week:
The “Arab Spring” in a historical perspective (via Andrew Exum).
Mitt Romney’s corporate idealism: Mitt Romney drove the creation of the modern, hyper-competitive economy.
Demolishing the myth that the average student can pay their way through college without loans (via Andrew Sullivan).
Midnight Sun | Iceland from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo, via Sarah Kliff.
Defending Zooey Deschanel’s melancholic rendition of the national anthem (via Robert Farley).
The Economist calls for generational warfare: “Another reason OWS may want to shift their focus is that the elderly (or at least the their most effective lobbby, the AARP) has declared war on them.”