Links

Andrew Bartlett has up a post about the role of public intellectuals in a democracy, which is quite interesting.

Crooked Timber advances the Babelfish theory of globalisation (and someone has an interesting pop at Habermas in the comments).

Elizabeth Anderson carries on writing about freedom. Today, freedom as related to the size/quality of your opportunity set, rather than freedom as absence of impediment.

Also, my exams are nearly finished now, so there might be some return to something like relatively regular and more substantive than one-sentence linking posting in the near-ish future.