The Tyler Cowen

Nothing like a little bout of food poisoning to take the wind out of your sails. But we've righted the ship after a pretty disastrous start to March and are (hopefully) back on track.

1. What happens if it happens there? Not to sound alarmist but western society could well be in for a painful adjustment period.
2. Beijing's connections to Pyonyang grow stronger and the North shows further signs of reform. How would South Korea react should the North continue its tentative steps along China's reform-path? Both via NKEconomyWatch.
3. The moral circle and its expansion with globalization.
4. The virus designed to attack Iran's nuclear computers. How is this story not a bigger diplomatic headache? 

Morality

Ronald Dworkin (leave it alone...just leave that joke alone) writes an excellent essay on morality and ethics here. In it, he attempts to unpack what we mean by the 'good life' by understanding the concept through the twin but separate frames of morality and ethics and arrive at a concrete definition by merging the two. Being at a particularly shaky point in my life at the moment, lost amid the buffeting waves of second-guessing and what-ifs, Dworkin's essay hit the spot. Before attempting to codify my own topsy-turvy morals and ethics, I should understand the foundations of what I'm attempting to organize.