Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Police set to step up hacking of home PCs
TIMES ONLINE :THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant... READ MORE
Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict
COMMENTARY CONTENTIONS :While much of the world engages in hand-wringing, placard-waving, teeth-gnashing, and rocket-launching over Israel’s “disproportionate” response to Hamas attacks from Gaza... READ MORE
Once Booming Dubai Goes Bust
CBS NEWS :(CBS) Over the years, booming oil prices helped turn Dubai into a land of opportunity and playground for the ultra rich... READ MORE
The Forbidden City of Terry Gou
WALL STREET JOURNAL :Past a guarded gate on the outskirts of this city sits one of the world's largest factories. In dozens of squat buildings, it churns out gadgets bearing technology's household names -- Apple Inc.'s iPods and iPhones... READ MORE
Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza
SALON :Former McCain-Palin campaign spokesman and current Weekly Standard editor Michael Goldfarb notes that Israel... READ MORE
How Hamas is altering Israeli politics
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR :While war between Israel and Hamas reverberates from Gaza City to southern Israel and to Arab capitals, the fallout will also be felt within the Israeli Knesset... READ MORE
Taliban bomber in bloody revenge on defiant village
TIMES ONLINE :FOUR months after a local militia stood up to the Taliban and threw them out of their village, killing six of them in the process... READ MORE
Israel has plenty of tactics for war, but none for peace
GUARDIAN :All those involved, and most of those following the bloodshed in Gaza from afar, are sure who is in the right and who is in the wrong... READ MORE
From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE : Two years ago, the Dutch could quietly congratulate themselves on having brought what seemed to be a fair measure of consensus and reason to the meanest intersection in their national political life... READ MORE
Why Gaza Matters
THE NEW REPUBLIC :It was Israel at its best. In response to random attacks aimed at its civilians, Israel launched precise attacks aimed at terrorists. In place of political schism... READ MORE