December 7, 2009 10:28AM 

# Monday Links 

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- How the European Union can [bring peace to the Middle East](http://bit.ly/5lDryC).
- [Nat Hentoff on the health care debate](http://bit.ly/6qdY2K): “We do not elect the president and Congress to decide how short our lives will be. That decision is way above their pay grades.”
- Video: [What can autism teach us about economics](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rd1qLgdA4)?
- Cato’s Malou Innocent [debates](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKxMbDIknrE) the troop build up in Afghanistan.
- Over at Cato Unbound, experts discuss the [positive](http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/11/18/jack-goldstone/the-bright-side-of-modernity-pluralism-freedom-and-equality/) and [negative ](http://bit.ly/6LELxJ)outcomes of modernity.
- Podcast: [Driverless cars](http://bit.ly/7AJCkt)? They aren’t as far away as you think.

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