[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At 3 Quarks Daily, Jenny White makes the point that Turkey's military-guided pluralism under Ataturk (for want of a better term) is highly historically contingent on specific developments in early 20th century Turkey. It can't be copied over easily.


• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton, after admitting to voting for the Conservatives in 2006, wonders how different the minority government's passive-aggressive approach towards opponents is from what's going on in Wisconsin.


• At A (Budding) Sociologist’s Commonplace Book, Dan Hirschman celebrates his blog's third anniversary with links to his favourite posts.


• Bluejacket 1862 is not positive on the idea of Britain opening up its banks to foreign ownership.


• At Border Thinking, Laura Agustin comments on a recent report examining international marriage brokering as trafficking.


• Burgh Diaspora links to a map showing GDP change by county in the United States. Florida, the interior South, and the Midwest look terrible.


• Centauri Dreams describes the construction of new Internet protocols suitable for the light-minutes necessarily inserted into space travel.


• The Russian-language photo blog centralasian has a post showing paintings from an exhibition of Swiss landscape painting.


• In a guest post at City of Brass, Dean Esmay makes the point that Western ill-founded belief in the imminent Caliphate is so foolish it's destructive.


• Amitai Etzioni draws from his personal experience to make the point that Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique deserve to be celebrated.


• At Geocurrent Events, Martin Lewis notes the salience of tribal identity in Libya, and wonders why tribal identity isn't taken more seriously.


• The Global Sociology Blog notes how the attitudes behind the sociological functionalism of Talcott Parsons, holding that each person had a specific place, helped push his brilliant daughter into killing herself.


• Marginal Revolution speculates as to the sorts of people who'll remain famous far into the future. {People who symbolizes areas of human thought and achievement, like Jesus and Einstein, rank highly.