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The opposite-of-indubitable Tom Friedman has been raving about Ireland lately. How rich it is, and now how its labor system should be admired for its brutality. If he was right, I’d perhaps be willing to assume that the unprotected workers in the “anglo-saxon” labor system are better off; but he’s dead wrong. Point One: Ireland [...]

When I was visiting Aborigine villages in Taiwan I noticed that every house had a satellite dish on its roof. Anthropologist Scott Simon explained to me that the Council of Indigenous Peoples had given these out to every Aborigine household in preparation for the launch of the new Aboriginal television channel 原住民電視, or ITV, which [...]