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[Rational Madman]

Alex Libman, on 06 September 2011 - 03:29 PM, said:

It's interesting to indulge in statistical trivia, but I disagree with your priorities of what makes a good place to live.  Some of those statistics are circumstantial - what your neighbors achieve does not benefit you directly.  Where you live is not the same question as where you invest your money.  Aside from a small circle of family / friends, communicating with people over the Internet is better anyway.  Moving to a place with high life expectancy or literacy will not affect those attributes of yourself.  Etc.  I'd place more emphasis on freedom instead.

Although the following is on its way to becoming a cliche, is anyone else becoming alarmed by the depreciation of journalism?  Indeed, I've become so thoroughly alienated that I've found myself frequently willing to suffer the price of relative ignorance, rather than suffering through the exceedingly mediocre and sensationalist garbage that has become the norm. At the same time, though, there's still some superb content out there amidst the shit storm, but I imagine many people are disinclined to pay the opportunity cost of looking.  Personally, I have somewhat of a good notion of what's worth reading, but I still find myself spending an undesired amount of time filtering.  So rather than beginning a pointless rant, I think it might be worth pooling our preferences, so that we all might come to a better understanding of the marketplace.

I'll start with publications and websites:

1. The New Yorker
2. The Economist
3. The New York Review of Books
4. The Economist
5. Foreign Affairs
6. Project Syndicate
7. The Atlantic Wire
8. The "Real Clear" aggregators
9. Harvard's Belfer Center
10. The Social Science Research Network
11. The Financial Times
12. Guardian
13. The New York Times
15. The Brookings Institution
16. The Rand Corporation
17. McKinsey Global Institute
18. The IMF
19. The Congressional Budget Office
20. The National Interest

Writers:
1. Clive Crook
2. Martin Wolf
3. Simon Tisdall
4. Ross Douthat
5. Reihan Salam
6. Fred Kaplan
7. Kenneth Pollack
8. David Rieff
9. Steve Coll
10. Mark Bowden
11. George Friedman
12. Freeman Dyson
13. Mark Zandi
14. John Burns
15, Dexter Filkins
16. Rory Stewart
17. Paul Pillar
18. Benny Morris
19. Samuel Brittain
20. David Remnick

Edited by Rol82, 09 September 2011 - 12:41 AM.