Every year, The Economist puts together a special double issue to end the year. In addition to the regular coverage they offer, they also put together a series of special articles around a variety of special subjects that might have relevance now, but aren’t of the “breaking news” variety. It’s easily some of my favorite writing anywhere throughout the year. This little list features my favorites from this years year-end issue.
- European disunion done right: The Holy Roman Empire + the EU + an illustration of the Defenestration of Prague.
- Narrative of an empty space : “Behind the row over a bunch of Pacific rocks lies the sad, magical history of Okinawa”
- Japan’s Citizen Kane “A media mogul whose extraordinary life still shapes his country, for good and ill”
- The king of con-men: The biggest fraud in history is a warning to professional and amateur investors alike
- Halfway to paradise: A half-built bridge symbolises the urgency and the frustrations of improving India’s infrastructure
- The never-ending war
“How a terrible but little-known conflict continues to shape and blight a nation” - In the name of the Name Monks who were suppressed by the Tsar’s navy a century ago are still regarded as subversive
- And lastly, the cover story – Into everlasting fire: “For hundreds of years, Hell has been the most fearful place in the human imagination. It is also the most absurd”
Read up, people!
RSS - Posts