[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin notes a NPR interview with conservative legal writer Richard Posner who is very critical of the anti-intellectual turn in Republican thought.


• Extraordinary Observation's Rob Pitingolo notes that in Cleveland, the quality of the jobs created at a newly-opened casino is such that apparently workers are quitting in droves.


• Far Outliers has two interesting extended quotes, one comparing the positions of Prussia in pre-unification Germany with Piedmont in pre-unification Italy, the other examining the ways in which Bismarck subverted the stereotype of the junker lord.


• GNXP's Razib Khan argues that coverage of Muslim iconoclastic radicals in the Wahhabi, like the ones who are currently destroying Timbuktu's architectural heritage, doesn't get the extent to which this reaction is common.


• In a guest posting at the Planetary Society blog, space scientist Marc Rayman talks about the Dawn probe's ongoing studies of asteroid/possible dwarf planet Vesta.


• Registan's Casey Michel writes about the ambiguities and questions associated with the claim of an attempted plane hijacking in western China by Uighurs. What actually happened, it seems, is less important than what people think happened.


• Supernova Condensate's [Unknown site tag] links to an article of his written about the Square Kilometre Array, a radio telescope array scattered across Australia and South Africa.