Good Reads

- Review of Mike Davis's Planet of Slums and his newest Buda's Wagon in the London Review of Books.
- How to Recover from Identity Theft (H/T: Bruce)
- Is a U.S.-Iran War Inevitable? By Robert Baer. Time, Mar. 29, 2007
- Capital Warfare by Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Douglas Rediker. The Wall Street Journal, 29 March 2007

If the U.S. is to maintain its leadership in a new multipolar world, policymakers must recognize that there is no guarantee the U.S. will remain the world's center of financial gravity forever and must plan accordingly. American lawmakers, financiers and companies must rise to the occasion and engage in the global war for capital by working together to make certain the U.S. remains an attractive destination and market for capital.

- Serving at His Pleasure: America's 10 horniest presidents By Karl Shaw. Radar Online
- THE MANHATTANIZATION OF BOSTON By THOMAS C. PALMER JR. Boston Globe March 24, 2007