More interesting things from around the WWW.
Scott McLemee is back from a break, with two great columns. The first is on Alfredo Perez’s Political Theory Daily Review, which is one of my daily reads, and imo a simply terrific resource. It beats the better-known “Arts and Letters Daily” hands-down in terms of depth of coverage and (for me) interest. Somebody needs to give this guy a paid job doing this full-time The second is an essay on the mutual disdain of academia and journalism for each other, defending intellectual border-crossing and amateurism, in the original sense of the word.
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies has set up a German elections blog with commentary in English from German journalists and experts. Speaking of which, I’ve been meaning to give a plug to Sign and Sight feuilletons page for a while; it’s a great way of keeping up with the intellectual debate in Germany and elsewhere.
Tim Harford and others have set up the World Bank’s first blog, which aims to promote private sector approaches to international development.
My old colleague, Ron Deibert has set up Civiblog, a free blogging service for people involved in NGOs and civil society organizations.