Newsletter 400

13 Aug 2011 • 3 min read

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

[5]Slumlands
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nTZy5K

Paul Mason | New Statesman | 8 August 2011

This piece from the current edition of the New Statesman written by Paul
Mason challenges society to think more about slums and to listen carefully
to the staggering one billion people that live in them [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/slumlands

[7]Secret Papers Reveal Truth Behind Soviet Collapse
Links:
7. http://b.rw/o6ihf9

Christian Neef | Spiegel | 11 August 2011

Newly published papers from end of Gorbachev presidency show last Soviet
leader as harsh, confused, deluded in talks with Helmut Kohl and George
Bush. On the Tiananmen massacre: "We must be realists: 3,000 people, so
what?" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/secret-papers-reveal-truth-behind-soviet-collapse

[9]The Great Splintering
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pkm1K0

Umair Haque | HBR | 10 August 2011

A social contract has been torn up in Britain. We should be rewarding
creation of enduring, shared wealth. "Today's world of bailouts and golden
parachutes — while middle incomes stagnate — seems to be exactly the
reverse" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-splintering

[11]The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy
Links:
11. http://b.rw/os9OTG

Ruth Padawer | NYT | 10 August 2011

"That idea, that one’s gone and one’s here, it’s almost like playing God. I
mean, who are we to choose?" On the reduction of twins to a single foetus.
The procedure that's quietly becoming an option for American women
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/two-minus-one-pregnancy

[13]The Lost Legacy of a Hated President
Links:
13. http://b.rw/ok9Goz

Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman | Atlantic | 10 August 2011

Reassessing Herbert Hoover, the president Americans love to hate. Blamed for
the Great Depression, his story was classically tragic. Earlier success
planted the seeds of his historic failure. (Thanks Jim Nail for alerting us)
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lost-legacy-hated-president

[15]Nancy Wake
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qIyaU8

Anonymous | Economist | 11 August 2011

An obituary of Vera Wake, "the white mouse". A double agent and surely one
of the only women to fox the Gestapo so completely [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nancy-wake

FiveBooks Interview

[17]David Marquand on the End of the West
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-marquand-on-end-west

The former British MP says the myths we have perpetuated about the West are
dangerous and need to be revised. He tells us what we should read to
understand the changing world order [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-marquand-on-end-west

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