It’s a fresh batch of links, dear readers! Enjoy!
Tom Spurgeon keeps us up-to-date on happenings at Comic-Con International in San Diego!
* * *
Azar Gat gives a name to a model I’ve been trying to analyze/wrap my brain around: authoritarian capitalism, as distinct from the democratic version. (Subscription required, but it’s a really good article).
* * *
Khol Vinh at Subtraction writes about pinball and design. (here’s the pinball documentary he cites)
* * *
Say one more word about Another Woman and I will beat your ass like a drum.
* * *
Modernism and everything after: why today’s big buildings are silly.
* * *
Raising the stakes on my question of whether to buy a German car, several thousand Israelis have “restored” their German citizenship.
* * *
Jew-perheroes! (“Heeb-roes!” didn’t sound as good.)
* * *
How to Cover Your Assad.
* * *
My wife: smokin’!