Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments section.

Musing the state of Britain’s political weeklies.
Hopi Sen – The Old Statesman
donpaskini – Myths about journals
Westminster Wisdom – Debasing the Currency: the Decline of Political Journals

Highlights
Patricia Cohen/NYT Books – Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
In a time when interpreting the world around Americans is becoming increasingly important, author Susan Jacoby worries that anti-intellectualism has become endemic.

Peter Black AM – The use of language
Phrases such as ‘extraordinary rendition’, mitigate the power of what they actually mean, this is why they’re dangerous.

Mark Elf – UK Foreign Office covers for Israel…yawn
If the UK and other countries refuse to scald Israel in public, the Jewish state will continue to flaunt international concerns over its actions. via.

Nosemonkey – We are ruled by criminals
Obsolete – Rendition: the truth begins to seep out.
Miliband apologises for misinformation, but not for the fact that the British state is complicit in an illegal kidnapping and probable torture.

PoliticalBetting – Is Hillary recognising the reality of the numbers?
Has Hill finally accepted the Obama inevitability? In other news: [NYT]Spending by Clinton Campaign Worries Supporters

Elsewhere
Benjamin Mathis/LDV – Britain’s Town Centres – Designed for Disorder
Dave Cole – Does Julian Le Grand smoke?
Andy Worthington – “The Guantánamo Files” reviewed by New Internationalist
Freakonomics – Is Cheating Good for Sports?
Liberal England – Antidisestablishmentarianism
Schneider Home – The most articulate support for Obama I’ve seen
wit and wisdom – Serbs you right?
Jo Christie-Smith – Comment is Free contributors may well be able to write, but they don’t all seem to be able to read very well….

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