Newsletter 468

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

[5]The Myths Of Christian Europe
Links:
5. http://b.rw/rhcLfP

Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 20 October 2011

Excellent essay. The liberal, democratic values we hold dear aren't so
rooted in Christianity as we might think. So any weakening of Christianity
in Europe won't erode those values. But crass alarmism about Islam might
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/myths-christian-europe

[7]The Trouble With My Blood
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pW9ZpM

Will Self | Guardian | 21 October 2011

"Some time over the winter of 2010-11 I began to be gorged with blood." So
begins a very powerful, absorbing piece in which Self reflects on the rare
disease he inherited. Treatment involves weekly removal of two pints of his
blood [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trouble-my-blood

[9]The New Libya’s First Mistake
Links:
9. http://b.rw/o12XeR

Christopher Hitchens | Slate | 21 October 2011

Gaddafi squatted like a toad on the lives of the Libyan people. His obscene
regime showed that it would rather destroy society and the state than
surrender power. But his killing was a squalid lynching. Better he went to
the Hague [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-libya’s-first-mistake

[11]Collaborative Physics
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oZsjRw

Zeeya Merali | Nature | 19 October 2011

Could string theory, the rarefied, mathematical "theory of everything", have
much to teach us about the physics of ordinary matter? A pair of
intellectual misfits hope to prove so. "Maybe string theory is the new
calculus" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/collaborative-physics

[13]The Battle Of Broken Hill
Links:
13. http://b.rw/rqonnh

Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 20 October 2011

Extraordinary story from outback Australia of two-man attempt to join the
First World War. On the German-Turkish side. It ended badly, of course. A
fascinating slice of Australian history, not without resonance today
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/battle-broken-hill

[15]Robert Hughes: A Reply?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qipm3L

Peter Stothard | TLS Blog | 21 October 2011

Here's a fight in the making. Stothard reprints his own damning review of
Hughes's history of Rome, and demands that the author reply to it. "Most
history books contain errors. But Hughes's account has an extraordinary
number" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/robert-hughes-reply

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Charles Isherwood on Broadway
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-isherwood-on-broadway

What divides a hit from a flop, artistically speaking? The New York Times
theatre critic takes us behind the scenes to assess the art of writing for
Broadway and the rules for avoiding musical disaster [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-isherwood-on-broadway