–The Australian broadcaster ABC’s Religion and Ethics site has a series of articles by Martha Nussbaum on democracy and education: parts 1, 2, and 3.
–Coal is not cheap.
–Vegan nutritionist Virginia Messina argues that healthy diets can include meat analogues. (A corrective of sorts to anti-processed-food extremism.)
–At the great metal blog Invisible Oranges: why lyrics matter.
–Camassia has the first part of a review of Miroslav Volf’s interesting-sounding new book Allah: A Christian Response.
–Radiohead has released their new album “King of Limbs” a day early. You can download it here. I haven’t heard it yet, but the early reviews seem to be mixed. On the other hand, Radiohead albums generally take several listens to digest, so I’m withholding judgment.
–Paul Krugman on the budget “debate.”
–What’s going on in Bahrain?
–The Madison protests are about union-busting, not budget cuts.
–The history of using the National Guard to break strikes.
–According the calendar observed by Lutheran and some other Protestant churches, today is Martin Luther’s feast day (he died on this date in 1546).
ADDED LATER: The Nation‘s “Breakdown” podcast, hosted by Chris Hayes, tackles “the confusing concepts that make politics, economics and government tick” via questions submitted by listeners. This week’s episode tries to answer a question I asked: Why exactly are government deficits bad? (If or when they are.) Chris’s guest is economist Robert Pollin. You can listen here.
This seems appropriate for today:
A Thinking Reed 