Newsletter 296
[1]Bad Education
Links:
1. http://b.rw/honxy9
Malcolm Harris | n+1 | 25 April 2011
Student loans have now overtaken credit cards as US's single biggest source
of debt. With the cost of tuition soaring, and high graduate unemployment
raising doubts over ability to repay, is this a debt bubble about to burst?
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bad-education
[3]Quiet Politics
Links:
3. http://b.rw/gEmuLM
Daniel Little | Understanding Society | 26 April 2011
Nice distinction. "Noisy politics" takes place in public, decides issues
that excite voters. "Quiet politics" happens privately, decides issues that
matter to corporate managers and elites. The elites tell the politicians
what to do [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/quiet-politics
[5]Neglect Of Medical Evidence Of Torture In Guantánamo Bay
Links:
5. http://b.rw/gW03ju
Vincent Iacopino & Stephen N. Xenakis | PLOS Medicine | 26 April 2011
First independent review of Guantanamo detainees' medical records. Findings
indicate torture and "that medical doctors and mental health personnel
assigned to the DoD neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of
intentional harm" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/neglect-medical-evidence-torture-guantánamo-bay
[7]Hard Keynesianism In The EU
Links:
7. http://b.rw/hBwJy5
Henry Farrell & John Quiggin | Crooked Timber | 26 April 2011
Ungated copy of feature article in current Foreign Affairs. "EU is drifting
toward a thinly disguised version of the gold standard", leaving itself no
scope for monetary stimulus during downturns. That's not politically
sustainable [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hard-keynesianism-eu
[9]One Billion People Are Hungry
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ehnqTh
Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo | Foreign Policy | 26 April 2011
That's what the UN says, and lots of experts too. Is it true? What it seems
to mean is that poor people in Asia and Africa aren't eating what the
experts think they ought to be eating. But maybe they have other ideas and
priorities [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/one-billion-people-are-hungry
[11]What I Think I Know About Journalism
Links:
11. http://b.rw/hhzhvv
Jay Rosen | Press Think | 26 April 2011
Journalism scholar reflects on 25 years of teaching at NYU. Details his four
key ideas about the history, value and future of the press industry and
journalism - unsurprisingly, each one's a cracker [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-i-think-i-know-about-journalism
FiveBooks Interview
[13]David Nasaw on The Kennedys
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-nasaw-on-kennedys
Authorised biographer of Joseph P Kennedy talks us through the Kennedy
generations – and insists he won’t be watching the controversial new TV
series about the family
Featured Topic
[14]Communism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/communism
Our series on Communism, for the inquisitive Comrade. Interviews range from
Robert Service on Totalitarian Russia to Richard McGregor on the Chinese
Communist Party. Each expert picks their favourite books and articles
Reader Recommendations
_@prospect_uk_: Will Self: Support for the monarchy is the result of
brainwashing on an Orwellian scale [15]bit.ly/fSA7u6 [16]#browsings
Links:
15. http://bit.ly/fSA7u6
16. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[17]Taste of Morocco by Robert Carrier
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/taste-morocco-by-robert-carrier
_[18]Diane Seed says_: “Beautifully presented, this book includes a wide
range of authentic recipes, covering conserves, breads, pastries, vegetable
dishes, soups and, natutally, tagines”
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/diane-seed-on-mediterranean-cooking
Video of the Day
[19]Rolling Through The Bay
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/videos/rolling-through-bay
With just 100,000 toothpicks, and 35 years' work, you can make a model of
San Francisco navigable by pingpong balls
Quote of the Day
[20]Daniel Miller, on clothing
Links:
20. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/d_miller/mil-12
"At any given moment, more than half the world will be wearing denim"