Articole pe subiectul: Politeia Digest
The Economist: Faiths and the faithless
| 02/01/2013 | Autor theophyle Categorii: Politeia Digest |
The world’s religious make-up Reliable data on the age and whereabouts of the religious and irreligious are hard to come by, which makes a new report on the topic from the Pew Research Centre welcome. Among its many findings is that Jews and Buddhists make the biggest religious minorities, in the sense of living in a country where another religion […] Continuare…
The Economist: The year [2012] in charts
| 27/12/2012 | Autor theophyle Categorii: Economie, Politeia Digest |
FIVE years on from the start of the financial crisis, the global economy is enduring a feeble convalescence. The euro zone’s debt crisis became less acute in 2012, thanks largely to the promise by Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank’s president, to do “whatever it takes” to save the single currency. Bond yields in peripheral economies declined (chart 1). But […] Continuare…
The Economist: Doomsdays
| 22/12/2012 | Autor theophyle Categorii: Politeia Digest |
Predicting the end of the world IT IS not only wild-eyed prognosticators, in lonely towers with an owl for company, who predict the exact date of the end of the world. It has been marked in the diaries of popes, preachers and reformers. It has shivered the blood of a navigator nearing the edge of the globe, a delicate painter […] Continuare…
The New Yorker: Roberto Calasso’s Encyclopedic Mind at Play
| 16/12/2012 | Autor theophyle Categorii: Politeia Digest, Ziarul de Duminica |
Recently, I read Roberto Calasso’s “La Folie Baudelaire,” which brought back to mind a half hour that I spent, years ago, wandering with the author through the Milan train station, looking for Mad magazine. After an interview for a New Yorker profile I was writing about him, he’d politely accompanied me to the Turin train and then stayed to share […] Continuare…
The Economist: The newspaper industry
| 11/12/2012 | Autor theophyle Categorii: Politeia Digest |
News adventures After years of bad headlines the industry finally has some good news. In a recent issue of the beloved comic book, Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent, quits his job as a journalist at the Daily Planet because the paper has gutted its news coverage. Is the outlook for newspapers really so dire that even superheroes have given up […] Continuare…
Stratfor: The Elections, Gridlock and Foreign Policy
| 07/11/2012 | Autor theophyle Categorii: GeoPolitica, International, Politeia Digest |
“The Elections, Gridlock and Foreign Policy is republished with permission of Stratfor.” By George Friedman The United States held elections last night, and nothing changed. Barack Obama remains president. The Democrats remain in control of the Senate with a non-filibuster-proof majority. The Republicans remain in control of the House of Representatives. The national political dynamic has resulted in an extended […] Continuare…
The Economist: The road to 270
| 05/11/2012 | Autor theophyle Categorii: Eveniment, International, Politeia Digest |
Over the past two months, we have looked at the most important battlefield states where the presidential race will be decided. Put it all together, and what do you get? HURRICANE SANDY smashed into a presidential race that was about as close as it could be. According to a constantly updated poll-of-polls published by the invaluable political website RealClearPolitics, the […] Continuare…
