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http://fair.org/#gsc.tab=0 David Moon on Aaron's Law, Beth Schwartzapfel on Prison Access David Moon talks about efforts to reform the law used against Aaron Swartz. And Beth Schwartzapfel talks about journalists beyond the prison wall. Iraq War, Ten Years Later Having been wrong about Iraq almost seems like a prerequisite for being taken seriously as an establishment pundit.
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http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/ I like Michael Bérubé’s essay about the “crisis in the humanities” at the Chronicle of Higher Education but I’ve written quite a lot about the main issues in the essay lately and I want to give it a bit of a rest. I did find myself drawn to an exchange way down in the comments between Bérubé and the pseudonymous commenter I_have_been_Catholic.
When he was a junior doctor, Dr Christian Jessen worked dangerously long hours, which he feared might be putting patients at risk. He wasn't alone. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3008630

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