Today’s Reads VI – David Beckham and CREDs, the Bamboo Curtain, and Historical Preservation

  1. Credibility-enhancing displays (“CREDs”), and why David Beckham queueing up to pay his respect to the Queen is not all that different from Muslims fasting in Ramadan. A fascinating and intriguing read.
  2. I grew up in the age of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain. Will the Bamboo Curtain now fall in our lifetimes?
  3. An interesting, and counterfactual, argument against laws mandating historical preservation of buildings and landmarks. Not a problem in Malaysia, though. We just bulldoze through everything…