Newsletter 425

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

[5]The Arab Counterrevolution
Links:
5. http://b.rw/oQsK0n

Hussein Agha & Robert Malley | NYRB | 7 September 2011

Outstanding analysis of Arab uprisings, looking ahead to what may follow.
"Revolutions devour their children. The spoils go to the resolute, the
patient, who know what they are pursuing and how to achieve it" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/arab-counterrevolution

[7]Are Jobs Obsolete?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qjXV0P

Douglas Rushkoff | CNN | 7 September 2011

Jobs are a relatively recent invention. And to judge from the rate at which
they're disappearing now, they may not be with us much longer. Why do we
crave employment? How can we organise economy, society, around something
else? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-jobs-obsolete

[9]What Is Naturalism?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/oRCKfr

Timothy Williamson | NYT | 4 September 2011

Fine article on limits of naturalism. Believing in scientific method as only
viable way to describe world raises questions. What, for instance, to do
with mathematics, a field that does not use hypothetico-deductive reasoning?
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-naturalism

[11]Noel Gallagher After Oasis
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oie8fJ

Chuck Klosterman | Grantland | 6 September 2011

Bland headline, possibly unattractive subject, ripsnorter of an interview.
If you can tolerate liberal use of the f-word. About as far from the usual
corporate, new-album-promoting puff as you're likely to find [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/noel-gallagher-after-oasis

[13]How An Omniscient Internet 'Sextortionist' Ruined The Lives Of Teen Girls
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qOpSGH

Nate Anderson | Ars Technica | 7 September 2011

Bizarre story of sextortionist Luis "Guicho" Mijangos. What's "sextortion"?
Mijangos obtained nude images of people, many after hacking into their
webcams. Demanded they send him sex videos as price for not publishing the
pictures [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-omniscient-internet-sextortionist-ruined-lives-teen-girls

[15]The King And I
Links:
15. http://b.rw/nGBZJ8

Ray Connolly | Intelligent Life | 7 September 2011

Writer remembers interviewing Presley. "We’d never heard of anyone called
Elvis before. His detractors, which is to say just about everyone out of
their teens, declared immediately that he was a flash in the pan who
couldn’t sing" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/king-and-i

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Peter Beinart on Post-9/11 America
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-beinart-on-post-911-america

The neoconservative view that the US has a special mission in the world was
supercharged by 9/11. There was also a sense that 9/11 could make America
better. Sadly it didn’t work out that way, says Peter Beinart [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-beinart-on-post-911-america