FiveBooks Newsletter 94
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
On The Browser today, [5]Niall Ferguson discusses five books that have
influenced his life and work, from Keynes to Tolstoy. He offers
analysis of the US financial crisis and tells us why current policy is
the disease and not the cure, in his opinion.
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
Also on the site: international editor of The Economist [6]Edward Lucas
talks about Putin and Russia; best-selling science writer [7]Dava Sobel
considers Copernicus; and peace historian [8]John Gittings decries our
bias towards war.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gittings-on-peace
Next week, keep your eyes peeled for interviews with and book
recommendations from experts including Chinese dissident author Ma
Jian. Thanks for following!
FiveBooks News
[9]Niall Ferguson on Intellectual Influences
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
Friday April 13
The historian tells us about the diverse influences on his work, from
Keynes and Tolstoy to an Austrian satirist, and explains why he sees
the world as a complex place on the edge of chaos [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
[11]John Gittings on Peace
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gittings-on-peace
Thursday April 12
The author of The Glorious Art of Peace says history is usually studied
and written from the perspective of war, and can look very different
when viewed from the perspective of peace [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gittings-on-peace
[13]Edward Lucas on Putin and Russian History
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
Wednesday April 11
The international editor of The Economist and author of a new book
about Russia gives an excoriating critique of Putinism and explains how
Russia's amoral present is rooted in a failure to come to terms with
its past [14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
[15]Dava Sobel on the Early History of Astronomy
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
Tuesday April 10
The biographer of Copernicus and Galileo tells us about the men whose
painstaking work changed our understanding of Earth’s place in the
universe [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dava-sobel-on-early-history-astronomy
[17]The Second-Term Illusion
Links:
17. http://b.rw/HCJZtC
Aaron David Miller | Foreign Policy | 11 April 2012
Do you think a second-term Obama presidency, freed from re-election
concerns, will tackle Netanyahu and push for Middle East peace? Here's
why it won't happen (and it's not because of the Israel lobby) [18]More
like this
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[19]The Killing of Trayvon Martin
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
On the case that has pitched America into soul-searching and division
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
Book of the Week
[21]The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/last-days-mankind-by-karl-kraus
[22]Niall Ferguson says: “I was entirely riveted by Kraus’s central
theme that the First World War could be understood as a media-driven
event” [23]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
23. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[24]Bang Goes The Theory
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bank-goes-theory
Johnny Ball estimates the number of taxis in London using
capture/recapture [25]More videos
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[26]James Wood, on hypocrisy
Links:
26. http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/post/20981404706
“The hypocrite may serve, among other things, as a deformed
ambassador of the truth”
[27]More quotes
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@SundeenMark Great piece Brittany's Choice by Greg Martin in Witness
Magazine [28]t.co/QtY4rWXG [29]#browsings [30]More like this
Links:
28. http://t.co/QtY4rWXG
29. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings