1. America romances French Muslims
2. Architecture in refugee camps
3. Scatterplot and Crooked Timber on writing a CV for an academic job. If you’re an economist, though, I’d stick with the Harvard line
4. Comic book religion update: Superman is a methodist and Batman is a lapsed Catholic? (via MoLT)
5. Alex Tabarrok convinced me to buy the Wisdom of Whores
6. I’m going to guess that Khartoum is funding and equipping the Lord’s Resistance Army again. Is this the beginning of another war in southern Sudan?
7. Britons aren’t so hot about free money
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On your advice (via Marginal Revolution), I went and read “Wisdom of Whores.” Excellent book about practical epidemiology and the politics of international aid. I bet you’d love it. Thanks for the suggestion. A review on my blog is forthcoming.