Newsletter 362
[5]What’s Happening To The US Economy?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/lAHonW
Martin Feldstein | Project Syndicate | 29 June 2011
Why is pessimism among economists growing? Lucid, concise précis demystifies
the economy’s performance over past year, for those wondering “Wait—what’s
with this mysteriously non-recovering so-called recovery?" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what’s-happening-us-economy
[7]'I Can See You're Not Neo-Nazis'
Links:
7. http://b.rw/lBGeri
Jason Webster | FT | 1 July 2011
A new holiday touring sites where Hitler and the Nazi party rose and fell
was bound to cause controversy. But away from the media furore, writer finds
trip challenging, fascinating, sensitively conducted [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-can-see-youre-not-neo-nazis
[9]A Swedish Burger Chain Says 'Minimize Me'
Links:
9. http://b.rw/m7ucQb
Andrew Winston | HBR | 30 June 2011
Can we make money without doing evil? I believe it's not just possible but
will be what defines profitability in the future. Here’s a compelling
example: Burger firm makes industry-leading margins by advising people to
eat less meat [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/swedish-burger-chain-says-minimize-me
[11]It’s A Mad Mad 90th Anniversary
Links:
11. http://b.rw/liinNg
Jeremiah Jenne | Granite Studio | 1 July 2011
Mad Men guide to Communist China. "Mao and Don Draper are chain-smoking
misogynistic misanthropes with shady pasts. They rose by being good ideas
men and not a little bit ruthless. Politics aside, I bet they could have
hung a bit" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/it’s-mad-mad-90th-anniversary
[13]The Business Of Values
Links:
13. http://b.rw/mCHAvE
David Rock | HBR | 24 June 2011
Reflections on recent leadership symposium. An article packed with gems that
addresses why business schools haven’t done a better job of producing
ethically grounded leaders respected in and trusted by society [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/business-values
[15]Interview: David Frost
Links:
15. http://b.rw/kbCiP4
Simon Hattenstone | Guardian | 2 July 2011
Could have been preacher or footballer. But TV claimed him. Much-mocked:
Peter Cook said one of his great regrets was saving Frost from drowning. But
conducted "perhaps the greatest television interview ever", with Richard
Nixon [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/interview-david-frost
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Franklin Foer on the Roots of Liberalism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/franklin-foer-on-roots-liberalism
Our weekly series on American progressivism continues with the journalist
and author discussing the genesis of liberalism – and how the Civil War
remade politics [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/franklin-foer-on-roots-liberalism
Featured Topic
[19]Crime & Thriller Writing
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/crime-writing
Leading writers discuss their genre and select their top five essential
reads, plus selected articles on the murky world of thrillers and whodunnits
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/crime-writing
Reader Recommendations
_@zachprague_ RT _@ZachofArabia_: _@will_mccants_: Solid longform in Vanity
Fair on Saudi involvement in 9/11 - [21]t.co/a6wHfmy // #browsings [22]More
like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/a6wHfmy
22. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[23]Book of the Day
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/desert-by-john-c-van-dyke
[24]The Desert by John C Van Dyke
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/desert-by-john-c-van-dyke
[25]Hari Kunzru says: "It is a book that completely changed the American
idea of what the Western desert could be, and Sierra Club hikers still carry
it around" [26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hari-kunzru-on-mojave-desert
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[27]The Loving Trap
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/videos/loving-trap
For fans of Adam Curtis documentaries: a parody [28]More videos
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[29]Terry Eagleton, on learning
Links:
29. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/nov/21/rowan-eagleton-dawkins-atheism-debate
There's no point in defending the value of synecdoche to people who think
it's a small town in upper New York state
[30]More quotes
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/quotations