Feed Reads 05.11.08

A round-up of interesting (if miscellaneous) stuff that popped up in my RSS feeds:

• Torontoist looks at some buried Toronto history

• Dave Sim (of Cerebus fame and other small amounts of infamy) is back, with a meditation on the roots of anti-Semitism

• since I spent two weeks in Japan in the fall of 2007, I've become a bit of a Japanophile; Marcus Gee had a long piece in the Globe on Saturday examining what has happened to Japan (particularly its economy) over the past twenty or so years, and what the prospects are for the next twenty

• an 11-year old boy in Hamilton is being kept from his family and forced to undergo chemotherapy treatment to which neither he nor his parents consent

• Susan Neiman ponders whether Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the greatest work of modern philosophy

• Slate explains how media outlets decide what country name to use (viz. Burma or Myanmar?)