… I a guest blogging over on Jim’s excellent The Daily (Maybe) with a piece about why I chose to discuss early 20th-century peasant rebellions in Southeast Asia, rather than listen to Ariana Huffington – it is all about thinking about how the future might look (and how we might come to view a steady state balanced economy, rather than a growing one, as a positive thing – as the human race has done throughout much of history.
(And in his commentary Jim has my hat situation summarised just right….)
… and on Blogcritics I’m reviewing Tim Butcher’s Blood River, about a journey through the modern Democratic Republic of Congo which provides an easily digestible introduction to that poor, blighted country.
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