Newsletter 441

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

[5]My Father Was a Communist
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pGVQyy

Erik Tarloff | Atlantic | 21 September 2011

The son of a Hollywood screenwriter blacklisted in the McCarthy era takes an
unsentimental look at a time when Americans were investigated and punished
by their government "solely for what they thought" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-father-was-communist

[7]Libya: The Losers
Links:
7. http://b.rw/oQVtnO

Max Rodenbeck | NYRB | 22 September 2011

Vignettes of Qaddafi's generals, in Libya, after the revolution. Grumbling,
stripped of their luxuries, and at the mercy of the triumphant rebels. But
no news of Qaddafi himself. "He will never stop. He's gotten used to
killing" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/libya-losers

[9]How Wine Became Metropolitan
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pZjcIp

Nicola Twilley | Edible Geography | 7 September 2011

A revelation over a glass of Beaujolais at Chez Panisse in Berkeley launches
architectural theorist David Gissen into a journey of discovery -- both
oenological and cartographic -- among the winemakers of France [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-wine-became-metropolitan

[11]Particles Break Light-Speed Limit
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qGY3d1

Geoff Brumfiel | Nature | 23 September 2011

Researchers in Italy claim to have timed neutrinos travelling faster than
the speed of light. If true, this would invalidate Einstein's special theory
of relativity. And most of modern physics with it. So we should be sceptical
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/particles-break-light-speed-limit

[13]At Iowa Methodist Hospital My Mother Died from A Strep Infection Of The
Brain
Links:
13. http://b.rw/mSOcpM

Walter Kirn | Walter Kirn's Permanent Morning | 22 September 2011

A writer's bracingly frank account of his mother's final illness and death,
with all the messy human details -- and unexpected intimations of
transcendence -- intact [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/iowa-methodist-hospital-my-mother-died-strep-infection-brain

[15]China 1911: The Birth of China's Tragedy
Links:
15. http://b.rw/nRbRDy

Jonathan Fenby | History Today | 21 September 2011

Fascinating essay on history of China's 1911 revolution. It brought an end
to an empire that had lasted since 221 AD. But it did not bring the radical
change it promised, instead damaging China's prospects for decades to come
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/china-1911-birth-chinas-tragedy

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Kenan Malik on Morality Without God
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenan-malik-on-morality-without-god

Religion is often presented as the guardian of moral values. The problem
with this, says the author and broadcaster, is that it diminishes what it
means to be human. He draws on Plato and a medieval Arab poet to explain why
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenan-malik-on-morality-without-god