around the web on May 20th

• Paul Romer envisions Hong Kong like city-states for developing countries.
• Stephen Walt discusses realism and tolerance, using DODT as a leaping point.
• Eric Brown and Darwin Catholic discuss bioethics, health care, and Catholic teaching at The American Catholic.
• Shafeen Chanaria wants kids to be exposed to the real world from a young age.

• John Médaille asks: “Does capitalism work?“
• H.C. Johns steps in for John Schwenkler and by way of introduction talks about the “gastronomical outlook of the Pythagoreans.”
• Jim Manzi analyzes Waxman-Markey so you don’t have to.
• What’s this about a booze tax?
  
• And David Frum, over at New Majority, reads three books on Rome – also, so that you don’t have to, though you should.

Update.

• This, via Rod Dreher, is sad and infuriating on so many levels I can barely link to it.

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