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.