[LINK] The Thursday Links Roundup

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• Over at Draxblog, Dragan Antulov wonders when people will complain about the militarization of the Croatian police force's tactics.


• Phil Edwards at Actually Existing considers the death penalty.


• Cabalamat's Phil Hunt discusses the modern ethics of niceness.


• John J. Reilly's The Long View is a must-read conservative blog.


• angel80 examines the ways in which multiculturalism can be made into a buttress for patriarchy.


• Edward Hugh's examination, at Bonoboland, of the seminal role played by Gunnar Myrdal and Sweden in modern demographic/economic thought, is worth reading.


• Jaquandor at Byzantium's Shores weighs in on the Christmas versus holidays debate. He's not of the one-size-fits-all school, incidentally.


• Ian Irving's essay at False Positives on the problems of utopia in science fiction is a must-read.


• Far Outliers is always good, but Joel's recent quotes on the privatization of medieval Christianity and the individualization of modern urban Christianity deserve to be meditated upon.


• Non Tibi Spiro's Guy La Roche links to reports that American oil companies are using propaganda to discourage Europeans from supporting measures agaisnt global warming.


• Language Hat's etymology of the word "Québécois" touches, if only in passing, on Francophone Canada's identity shifts in the second half of the 20th century.


• Russell Arben Fox's thoughts about Christmas and Christianity make me wonder what it would be like to be a believer.


• At Opinionated Lesbian, Eleanor Brown writes about what must be donet o exorcise the spirit of the Montreal Massacre.


• Diane Duane links to a guide to women's fashion in the Shanghai of the mid-1930s.


• For whatever reason, I hadn't added feorag's The Pagan Prattle to my blogroll. This changes, now.