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International Development:

1) How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David Bornstein.

2) Foreign Affairs: Smart Samaritans.

3) Joseph Stiglitz on The Malaysian Miracle.

4) The New York Times: One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax.

5) The Toronto Star: An increasing number of Canadian activists are blending tourism with aggressive advocacy abroad.

Politics & Economics:

6) The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations: Rethinking “Nation-Building”: The Contradictions of the Neo-Wilsonian Approach to Democracy Promotion.

7) Znet: Do Capitalists fund revolutions? (Part One, Two)

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: Listening for the Whisper - how to break the addiction to spectacle.

9) Christianity Today: ‘I Thirst’: What was going on with Mother Teresa?

Others:

10) Guardian: Why academic writing is so boring?

International Development:

1) TED: Let’s take a new look at Africa aid.

2) Newsweek: How to fix the World Bank.

3) YaleGlobal: Globalization was good then, not now.

4) The New Republic: A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism.

5) Grist: The power of voluntary actions.

Politics & Economics:

6) The New Republic: Democrats should embrace the philosophy of Liberalism.

7) New Left Review: Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: World Vision India head Jayakumar Christian on how the poor become movers and shakers, and movers and shakers become poor.

9) Christianity Today: The Amish response to the Nickel Mines shootings wasn’t just plain Christianity.

Others:

10) Smithsonian: Peaceful and prosperous, Southeast Asia’s famously uptight nation - Singapore - has let its hair down.

International Development:

1) Stanford Social Innovation Review: Real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.

2) Science News: A country’s competitive edge can spread industry to industry, like a disease.

3) Grist: Voluntary actions didn’t get us civil rights, and they won’t fix the climate. Also: why, on your own, you’ll never do enough to save the planet.

4) Wired: Eco-capitalists save Mother Nature by charging for her services.

5) The Age: Call of the mild.

Politics & Economics:

6) The New Republic: What Dostoevsky can tell us about Iraq: Hubris vs. Humility.

7) The Economist: In search of the good company.

Progressive Christianity:

8) The Baylor Lariat: Calvinist view of bridge collapse distorts God’s character.

9) Christianity Today: An Older, Wiser Ex-Gay Movement. Also: The Best Research Yet.

Others:

10) News Weekly: Postmodern science - a contradiction in terms.

When millions of people are dying of AIDS and malaria in Africa, it is hard to justify the umpteenth society gala held for the benefit of a performing arts center or an art museum. A $30 million gift to a concert hall is not philanthropy, it is a Napoleonic coronation. (William H. Gross)

When I first started doing this, I made a contribution to some organization, Harvest something or other, I think, that was working on homelessness. The next thing I knew, I got a plaque in the mail and an invitation to an awards ceremony. I never gave them another nickel. What were they spending money on plaques for? (Thomas M. Siebel)

International Development:

1) Joseph O’Keefe on Aid - From Consensus to Competition?

2) Jaiswal Anand Kumar on Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Alternative Perspective.

3) The Weak Link Theory of Economic Development.

4) InfoChange: Globalisation and liberalisation: Fuzzy boundary.

5) The Economist: On Ha-Joon Chang and the Infant Industry case for Protectionism.

Politics & Economics:

6) Jewcy: Mutiny on the Euston Manifesto.

7) Guardian: Can a caring society exist in a market economy?

Progressive Christianity:

8) Mother Jones: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics.

9) Jewcy: Why we should all be more like the Amish.

Others:

10) Orion Magazine: Education can ameliorate, or exacerbate, society’s ills.

International Development:

1) Harvard Business Review: Beware of Bad Microcredit.

2) The Wall Street Journal: A farewell to Alms. See a response to Arvind Subramanian’s article here at the Centre for Global Development’s (CGD) blog.

3) Reuters AlertNet: Are gap-year do-gooders wasting their time?

4) Dissent: Globalization’s Mad Scientist: On Joseph Stiglitz.

5) Francis Fukuyama on how big business will pacify the clash of cultures.

Politics & Economics:

6) AlterNet: There Is No Political Center, There Are No Centrists.

7) The Guardian: How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Into the Wild’s top 15 spiritually enriching U2 songs.

9) Time has an excellent article on Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith. Also, Scriptorium Daily has a good post on Why was Mother Teresa sad?

Others:

10) Axess: A return to positivism is the only serious way of coming to grips with the major issues of our times.