Newsletter 374

[5]The Great Murdoch Conspiracy
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nOgEqh

Peter Oborne | Telegraph | 14 July 2011

Terrific denunciation of state of relations between over-mighty press and
timorous politicians at Westminster. Much through the lens of the rise and
fall of Rebekah Brooks, "one of the great adventuresses of her era"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-murdoch-conspiracy

[7]What's a Metaphor For?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qKZ2g3

Carlin Romano | Chronicle Review | 3 July 2011

Lucid piece on history and value of metaphor, pegged to a book review. As
Aristotle noted "to be a master of metaphor is the greatest thing by far. It
is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and is a sign of genius"
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whats-metaphor

[9]Debt Endangers Growth
Links:
9. http://b.rw/p9tzyY

Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff | Bloomberg | 14 July 2011

Dangers of high public debt clearly explained with a little history and some
new data. Neither default nor restructuring are critical concerns. "Biggest
risk is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/debt-endangers-growth

[11]I'm English, I Said
Links:
11. http://b.rw/nzBr5g

Chrstopher Tayler | LRB | 7 July 2011

Profile of Colin Thubron. "Wryly patrician, weatherbeaten yet
youthful-looking in his photographs, he is an English travel writer, one of
the last types of writer on earth with a licence to trade openly in the
strange and beautiful" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/im-english-i-said

[13]Gordon Brown Suffers Ex-PM Syndrome
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qsLQCv

Simon Jenkins | Guardian | 14 July 2011

Gordon Brown is finding, as others have found before, that it's hard to be
an ex-prime minister. You're full of adrenaline. Probably full of bitterness
too. But your party, and the public, just wants you to shut up and go away
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gordon-brown-suffers-ex-pm-syndrome

[15]Cheese That Stands Alone
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qiQ5zU

Ben Schwartz | Lapham's Quarterly | 14 July 2011

History of Limburger cheese, originally from Belgium, once popular in
America, now almost extinct there. "It was as if a dark, evil-smelling
sprite had escaped the Black Forest of Germany and wafted its way to the New
World" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cheese-stands-alone

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Simon Baron-Cohen on Empathy
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-baron-cohen-on-empathy

The autism expert tells us about the links between empathy and language, and
says our acts of cruelty to one another have at their root a failure to
empathise [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-baron-cohen-on-empathy