FiveBooks Newsletter 91
Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus
a pick of the best content on The Browser.
[1]FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks
interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The
Browser.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
FiveBooks at The Browser
Today on FiveBooks we invited political economist and commentator
[5]Robert Reich to discuss the crisis of democracy in America, and how
to solve it. "Massive inequality," he says, "is incompatible with
robust democracy."
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
He joins the good company this week of writer John Carlin, considering
the legacy of Nelson Mandela in today's South Africa, gardener and TV
presenter [6]Monty Don, recommending five favourite gardening books,
and much more.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books
Next week, look out for political philosopher John Gray on a critique
of utopia, cricketer Ed Smith on luck, and financial columnist and
blogger Barry Ritholz on Wall Street. Thanks for reading us!
FiveBooks News
[7]Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
Friday March 23
Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have
pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are
precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich [8]Continue reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy
[9]Monty Don on Favourite Gardening Books
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books
Thursday March 22
The presenter of the popular BBC series Gardener’s World shares his
favourite reads on gardening from childhood to today, and tells us that
we’re all bacteria when it comes to working with nature [10]Continue
reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books
[11]Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-schor-on-consumption-and-environment
Wednesday March 21
The author of True Wealth suggests how we can rethink our patterns of
consumption and approach our relationship with nature in a new, less
damaging, way [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-schor-on-consumption-and-environment
[13]John Carlin on Understanding Mandela and South Africa
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
Tuesday March 20
Nelson Mandela was a most unusual, and unusually astute, leader, says
John Carlin. He used forgiveness as a political tool, in so doing
ensuring that South Africa avoided what could have been a bloodbath
[14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa
[15]Tim Weiner on the US Intelligence Services
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-weiner-on-us-intelligence-services
Sunday March 18
The job of the intelligence services is to understand others and help
leaders act more wisely, says the author of a new history of the FBI.
There’s also, he says, a balance to be struck between liberty and
security [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-weiner-on-us-intelligence-services
[17]How One Man Escaped From A North Korean Prison Camp
Links:
17. http://b.rw/zXR09I
Blaine Harden | Guardian | 16 March 2012
Shin In Geun is probably the only person to have been born in, and
escape from, a North Korean camp for political prisoners. His account
of the cruelty and viciousness of life inside Camp 14 is harrowing
almost beyond belief [18]More like this
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[19]Hackers
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Cars, nuclear plants, computers, phones, webcams -- they all succumb to
hackers in the end [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/hackers
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[21]Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/derek-jarmans-garden-by-derek-jarman
[22]Monty Don says: "I think this is the best gardening book ever
written" [23]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books
23. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[24]Flying Like A Bird
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/videos/flying-bird
With the help of an Android phone, some video game controllers, and
home-made wings Jarno Smeets claims he can fly like a bird. Can he? Or
is it a hoax?
[25]More videos
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[26]Gail Collins, on women voters
Links:
26. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/the-etch-a-sketch-doctrine
"My biggest rule on women voters is that most of them won’t, under
any circumstances, support a male candidate who yells a lot"
[27]More quotes
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@zachprague "But there's a remarkably simple explanation: Search is no
longer Google's core product." http://t.co/DnCtdFCa [29]#browsings
[30]More like this
Links:
29. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings