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David Brooks in today's NYT: "money was entrusted to a few thousand traders who sloshed it around the world in search of the highest returns...
 

Jonathan Glater in the NYT Business Section this morning: "Corporate executives routinely sing the praises of arbitration clauses, the language buried in the fine print of contracts for mobile phones or credit cards, for example, that typically bars a consumer from going to court...

Jacques Berlinerblau in the Washington Post's On Faith section: "Maher, a talented stand-up performer, is simply not skilled at, or comfortable with, rapidly converting ideological bile into comedy gold...
 

Jonathan M. Gitlin on Ars Technica: "We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case.

There's an interesting subtext to some of the recent developments in the presidential election: the centrality of respect.
 

At the risk of making this blog look like merely another distribution channel for his column, David Brooks in today's NYT: "...this individualist description of human nature seems to be wrong..."
 

I guess the "Good Brooks" showed up to work today:
 

Via my good friend Sanjana, some observations from Jonathan Zittrain's new book The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It): "Though these two inventions—iPhone and Apple II—were launched by the same man, the revolutions that they inaugurated are radically

A trademark Brooks turnaround in today's column: "...big gaps in educational attainment are present at age 5. Some children are bathed in an atmosphere that promotes human capital development and, increasingly, more are not.

David Brooks in Friday's Times: "Obama’s tone was serious. But he pulled out his “this is our moment” rhetoric and offered visions of a world transformed. Obama speeches almost always have the same narrative arc. Some problem threatens. The odds are against the forces of righteousness.