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Monday links, assorted
Jacobin magazine interviews Lily Lynch: Serbia Is a Showcase of Authoritarian Neoliberalism. An objective assessment of the situation in the Balkans, if you are interested in that sort of thing. It covers not only Serbia but Montenegro as well, and Kosovo too for those who consider it separately. The prime minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, comes out well. Everyone else — “the West” included — not so much.
Jeff Atwood: Is Worse Really Better? Starts with a brilliantly disturbing story from Steve Martin then riffs on an excellent observation he had: “The consistent work enhanced my act. I learned a lesson: it was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the circumstances.”
Mike Solana: The Abundance Delusion. The book is still sitting on my pile, less and less likely to be read as time goes on, and here comes a very good rebuttal if not of the book then of the movement it spurred.