Newsletter 369

10 Jul 2011 • 3 min read

[5]The Menace Within
Links:
5. http://b.rw/oXjHIe

Romesh Ratnesar | Stanford Magazine | 5 July 2011

Forty years after the notorious Stanford prison experiment, how do the
guards, prisoners and researchers feel about it now? "When you have little
or no supervision, things just keep escalating. You think, how can we top
yesterday?" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/menace-within

[7]The Paradox Of Water
Links:
7. http://b.rw/oWxakQ

James Workman and Montgomery Simus | China Dialogue | 6 July 2011

It's a priceless asset for each of us that, collectively, we deplete and
debase recklessly. "We lose interest in water throughout the urban supply
chain. Unable to own or trade our share, we produce an urban, deeply tragic,
commons" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/paradox-water

[9]Time To Panic
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qXClAI

Marshall Auerback | Naked Capitalism | 8 July 2011

Slapdown of Obama administration economic policy. "Instead of responding to
the real crisis of unemployment, our policy makers remain fixated on deficit
reduction, and cutbacks in entitlement programmes." This could end badly
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/time-panic

[11]Ten Ways Arab Democracies Can Avoid American Mistakes
Links:
11. http://b.rw/rhwIZL

Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 6 July 2011

"Let me warn you about democracy. It is a vague ideal and the
old-established democracies like the US are seeing it undermined by a whole
host of undemocratic practices. Here is some advice on how to avoid mistakes
of my generation" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ten-ways-arab-democracies-can-avoid-american-mistakes

[13]Fiction Takes You To Places That Life Can't
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pUuqLq

Philip Hensher | Independent | 9 July 2011

Fun piece in which novelist suggests that fiction reading has a socially
useful function. "India is not completely strange if you have read Narayan;
nor is old age after Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont"
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fiction-takes-you-places-life-cant

[15]Celebrating Machu Picchu's Rediscovery
Links:
15. http://b.rw/p31fJh

Anonymous | BBC | 7 July 2011

Wonderful collection of photographs taken at the ruins of Machu Picchu in
July 1911. Other explorers had visited before but American Hiram Bingham was
first person to reveal the 'lost city of the Incas' to the world
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/celebrating-machu-picchus-rediscovery

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Andy Stern on Bringing Change to America
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-stern-on-bringing-change-america

The former union boss shares his reading list for American progressives, and
tells us what makes a good leader and how it takes only a few committed
people to bring change [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andy-stern-on-bringing-change-america

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