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Long before RSS feeds and blogging, and the umpteen-billion ways to post links and commentary on the web, there was Arts & Letters Daily. For years now this site has provided an incredibly eclectic set of links on what they deem "ideas, criticism, and debate." Recent topics have included: The $30K debt owed by Salvador Allende to the KGB for porn & women; author Ian McEwan on an invention greater than the wheel; and the rhetoric behind the term "ism." You can find all of these and more here:

Arts & Letters Daily