[LINK] Some Friday Links

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• Richard at 1948 links to Avi Klein's Washington Monthly article "Publish and Perish", about Lyndon LaRouche's travails now that his publisher has killed himself.


• Phil Hunt at Amused Cynicism writes against the idea of school uniforms.


• Matthew Hogan at 'Aqoul points out that an American strategy towards the Middle East that's based on the writings of Bernard "Europe is going to be an annex of the Maghreb" Lewis and Samuel "Let's prepare for the clash of civilizations" Huntington has the potential to backfire dramatically.


• Boing Boing links to an image of a new statue, a Barbie frozen in carbonite.


• Aziz Poonwalla at City of Brass has two posts up (1, 2) about the ongoing crisis in Pakistan.


• Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber writes about how, after 150 days, Belgium is still without a national government.


• Will Baird at The Dragon's Tales has a fascinating post exploring the possible causes of several unexplained mass extinctions in Earth's history.


• A Fistful of Euros' Alex Harrowell observes that one consequence of the Italian backlash against Romanian immigrants is the collapse of the far-right Identity-Tradition-Sovereignty coalition in the European Parliament. It turns out that the Greater Romania Party doesn't like the fact that the leader of Italy's post-fascists has been calling Romanians animals.


• Russell Arben Fox writes about the Barenaked Ladies' 1992 song "If I Had A Million Dollars," calling it "the quintessentially Canadian song: not quite this, and not quite that, but pretty damn funny and decent all the same, in a low key sort of way." On behalf of Canadians, thanks!


• Norman Geras writes about the Imposter Syndrome as experienced by academics.