Newsletter 423

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

[5]The Revolution Of Capitalism
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nSwbpN

John Gray | BBC | 4 September 2011

"Marx was wrong about communism. But he was prophetically right about
capitalism." He understood not just capitalism's endemic instability, but
more profoundly how it destroys its own social base – the middle class way
of life [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/revolution-capitalism

[7]The Dark Side Of An MIT Brain
Links:
7. http://b.rw/otPu5T

Ryan Normandin | The Tech | 6 September 2011

Story of MIT graduate Lead Wey and the website he created
seekingarrangement.com. Most dating websites match partners for long-term
relationships. Not so with Wey's venture which is in essence a hub for
prostitution. But a legal one [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dark-side-mit-brain

[9]We Betrayed Our Values With Torture
Links:
9. http://b.rw/q4f2qa

Dominic Lawson | Independent | 6 September 2011

We should commemorate 9/11 not only with renewed sympathy for victims but
sense of shame that we have not honoured them. In name of preventing second
9/11, Britain and America betrayed their ideals appallingly [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/we-betrayed-our-values-torture

[11]On Change In India
Links:
11. http://b.rw/orAWdQ

Siddhartha Deb | Guernica | 1 September 2011

Sharp essay on rising income inequality in India. Number of millionaires and
billionaires growing rapidly. Why then do three quarters of the population
still live on a meagre 50 cents a day? Thanks to Iain Manley for
recommending [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/change-india

[13]One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qa0zPH

Jacqueline Mroz | NYT | 5 September 2011

Most of the developed world has strict regulations over donor usage, among
other things to protect society's gene pool. But not so America, which has
"more rules that go into place when you buy a used car than when you buy
sperm" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/one-sperm-donor-150-offspring

[15]War And Peace On The Big Sandy River
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oAoWk9

Dean King | Granta | 3 September 2011

Feud between Hatfields and McCoys brought death and mayhem to Kentucky-West
Virginia borders in the 1890s. Fifty years later it broke out again. A
century later it was still simmering. Now the families are friends. 9/11
changed them [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-and-peace-big-sandy-river

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Steven Pincus on the English Revolution of 1688
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-pincus-on-english-revolution-1688

When William of Orange came from Holland to take the English throne was it a
foreign invasion or a revolution from within? The history professor
disentangles the facts to give us a new perspective [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/steven-pincus-on-english-revolution-1688