THE DAWNING OF WORLDLINESS. Jacob Levy points to a Matthew Yglesias autobiographical thread about the dawning of awareness of the wider world. For me, three things stand out: going outside to look at Echo orbiting (the newspaper helpfully published transit times), the building of the Berlin Wall on my seventh birthday, and the pre-emption of Mickey Mouse for debates in something called the United Nation about missiles in Cuba on our newly-delivered television.