Newsletter 381
[5]Edmund Burke Against Grover Norquist
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pueLrr
Garry Wills | NYRB | 14 July 2011
Why Edmund Burke, whose name was once synonymous with “conservatism”,
refused to sign Grover Norquist-style pledges to taxpayers, or any other
constituents, in his time [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/edmund-burke-against-grover-norquist
[7]The Sociological Breakthrough Of Google+
Links:
7. http://b.rw/r657VR
Andreas Kluth | Hannibal And Me | 20 July 2011
An article built on a pun is usually a bad idea, but Andreas Kluth explains
why he never liked Facebook: it is neither discreet nor, worse, is it
discrete. He's optimistic about Google+ for its contrast [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sociological-breakthrough-google
[9]Peeve Of The Week: 20% Correct
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qrYzuD
Mark Liberman | Language Log | 16 July 2011
When a BBC columnist complained about Americanisms, he had no idea that most
of his peeves had roots in British English, often going back past 1776
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/peeve-week-20-correct
[11]A Semi-Defense
Links:
11. http://b.rw/pjEYnF
John McWhorter | TNR | 13 July 2011
Of the infamous slavery passage in "The Marriage Vow" pledge. John McWhorter
re-examines, with a contrarian’s eye, the troubled trajectory of the black
family, arguing that what the pledge says is not tantamount to endorsing
slavery [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/semi-defense
[13]A Dirty Business
Links:
13. http://b.rw/o6p5iW
George Packer | New Yorker | 27 June 2011
George Packer got deep into the Galleon/McKinsey insider-trading scandal,
telling the reader not just how but why millionaires and billionaires rig
the markets and risk their freedom to get even richer [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dirty-business-0
[15]The Baddest Lawyer In The History Of Jersey
Links:
15. http://b.rw/iVoD4i
Mark Jacobson | NY Mag | 5 June 2011
Paul Bergrin is the crookedest lawyer in New Jersey in, perhaps, forever.
How crooked? Federal prosecutors say “witness-killing crooked”,
“hooker-ring-running crooked” and more [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/baddest-lawyer-history-jersey-0
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Cecile Richards on How Progressives Can Make a Difference
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/cecile-richards-on-how-progressives-can-make-difference
The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America tells us about
the stories of struggle and resilience that have inspired her and can give
encouragement to others seeking change [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/cecile-richards-on-how-progressives-can-make-difference
Book of the Day
[19]Book of the Day
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/good-natured-origins-right-and-wrong-humans-and-other-animals-by-frans-de-waal
[20]Good Natured by Frans de Waal
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/good-natured-origins-right-and-wrong-humans-and-other-animals-by-frans-de-waal
[21]Deborah Blum says: Frans de Waal is one of my favourite scientists. If
all scientists wrote as well as him, writers like me would be out of
business![22]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/deborah-blum-on-science-society
22. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Reader Recommendations
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Links:
23. http://twitter.com/polit2k
24. http://goo.gl/rIWgs
25. http://twitter.com/lecreative
26. http://twitter.com/lecreative
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Video of the Day
[29]Reinventing The Toilet
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/reinventing-toilet
From the Gates Foundation. File under: Things you probably don't want to
think about, but somebody should [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Cornel West, on the presidency
Links:
31. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/talk-cornel-west.html?src=tptw
"Be a thermostat, not a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of
opinion; a thermometer just reflects it"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations