- Powerful piece from Dan Drezner on Fareed Zakaria and the celebritisation of the American academy.
- Denmark\'s central bank goes there: negative interest rates.
- ANU\'s Crawford School has launched a new journal, Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, and is calling for papers.
- An interview with former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski on America, the world and everything.
- Long LRB piece about the English Premier League is a study in attitudes to capitalism: \'The German game, sponsored by corporations but owned and watched by working-class supporters, is run with precisely the coherence that the English FA was seeking when it first deregulated the game.\'
- Syrian TV host defects: \'I often sat crying in my car. The thought of having to read Bashar\'s messages every day almost broke my heart\'.
- Al Jazeera reports on a side of American life we\'re familiar with from \'The Wire\' (h/t Friedersdorf):
Monday linkage: Zakaria, Denmark, Baltimore drugs, Syria and more
Published 27 Aug 2012
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