Friday’s Reading List
By Taylor Marvin
Eugène Delacroix, 'Liberty Leading the People', 1830.
The best links of the week:
How US policies fueled Mexico’s great migration (via Erik Loomis).
How much does file sharing resemble stealing – and does it matter?
Do Israelis really want to bomb Iran?
George Lucas: Hollywood didn’t want to fund my film because of its black cast.
“Do you know what is worse than having your dead body urinated upon? Being killed. Being shot. Being bombed. Having your limbs blown off. Having your house incinerated by a drone-fired missile that you don’t see until it explodes.”
“War is an awful human experience. It is sometimes necessary, but it is never sanitary.”
Ten 100 year predictions that came true (via Brad Plumer).
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