Newsletter 397

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]Can the Middle Class Be Saved?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mZhNiT

Don Peck | Atlantic | 9 August 2011

Thoughtful essay on US wealth divide. "If the economic and cultural trends
under way continue unabated, class mobility will likely decrease in the
future, and class divides may eventually grow beyond our ability to bridge
them" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-middle-class-be-saved

[7]What's Happening To Men?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qkfXFX

Kay Hymowitz | Cato Unbound | 8 August 2011

They're falling behind, at least in America. By 2008 men were in the
minority at Harvard. They go abroad less, earn fewer graduate degrees. "This
is a first in human history, and its implications for both sexes are far
from simple" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/whats-happening-men

[9]It’s The Economy, Dummkopf!
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ogmh8k

Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 10 August 2011

Far-reaching investigation into Germany's attitude to money and role as euro
saviour. "In this financial world of deceit, Germans are natives on a
protected island who have not been inoculated against the virus carried by
visitors" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/it’s-economy-dummkopf

[11]They Still Don’t Get It
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qmjaqM

Charles Wyplosz | Vox EU | 8 August 2011

Euro crisis is one of confidence not liquidity. So, ECB must guarantee
eurozone public debts; member states in turn must make effective changes to
national fiscal institutions. "Spectre of the 1930s is getting dangerously
relevant" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/they-still-don’t-get-it

[13]Miracle Of Oil From Sand
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nJGhL5

Ronald Bailey | Reason | 9 August 2011

Despatch from oil sands mine in Alberta. "I marvelled at the cascades of
black bitumen froth bubbling over the sides of a separation cell like a
giant witch’s cauldron." It's tough on Mother Nature. It's also technology
at its best [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/miracle-oil-sand

[15]Is That All There Is?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ncmPJS

James Wood | New Yorker | 8 August 2011

Or, to put it another way: Why are we here? For the religious, that question
is supposed to be answered already. For the secular, it's supposed to be
irrelevant. But the older we get, the more it frightens us. Can literature
help? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/all-there

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Ruth Reichl on American Food
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-reichl-on-american-food

The Puritans got modern American cuisine off to a bad start. But the food
writer and critic says subsequent immigrants have helped create a culture
where food is appreciated [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ruth-reichl-on-american-food