Just as Russia's economic growth has obviated talk of democracy, the media's financial successes leave no place for ethical debate. While market imperatives often do the censors' work for them, counter-examples exist, reports Maria Eismont. [ more ]
"Arche" looks warily at the Belarusian thaw; "Magyar Lettre" gets to the heart of the central European city; "Kulturos barai" criticizes the culture of groceries; "Fronesis" takes counsel on the "unhappy marriage" between feminism and the Left; "A Prior" looks at monuments that won't melt into air; "Revista Crítica" sees the political potential of bio-art; "Critique & Humanism" analyzes neophilia and neophobia; "Dialogi" lashes out at the Slovenian press; and "Glänta" is missing links.
Damian Abbott is a co-founder and editor of Inventory and has worked under various pseudonyms on other collective enterprises.
The introduction of a national health database in the UK is being carried out by a typically wasteful private finance initiative. Total data transparency may be good for corporations and security obsessed governments, but what does it mean for the recipients of "joined-up care"? [more]
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