Newsletter 505
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]All The Angry People
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5. http://b.rw/uoxZ4f
George Packer | New Yorker | 28 November 2011
Ray Kachel is a 53-year-old technology worker from Seattle. Or was. He's
been out of work for some time, sold most of his remaining possessions, left
his flat. Now he's in New York, part of the OWS protest. This is his story
[6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/all-angry-people
[7]Eurozone Has Only Days
Links:
7. http://b.rw/vLlJnk
Wolfgang Munchau | FT | 27 November 2011
Ten days, to be exact. Until summit on December 9. And it can only survive
if governments make ECB lender of last resort, issue eurobonds, and create
fiscal union. Which they won't. So that's about it for the single currency
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/eurozone-has-only-days
[9]Are We The Teachable Species?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/sPAbbI
Carl Zimmer | The Loom | 22 November 2011
"There’s no culture on Earth without teachers. But just because something’s
easy doesn’t mean it’s not special. And in the animal kingdom, teaching is
exceedingly rare. In fact, it’s not clear whether any other animal can
teach" [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-we-teachable-species
[11]How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back
Links:
11. http://b.rw/rJX36h
Kay Hymowitz | City Journal | 27 November 2011
"How did the mean streets once paced by Irish and Italian dockworkers, and
later scarred by muggings and shootings, become so cool? The answer involves
economic, class, and cultural changes that have transformed American urban
life" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-brooklyn-got-its-groove-back
[13]Siege Of Leningrad 60 Years On
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13. http://b.rw/ufp4Pk
Anna Reid | Open Democracy | 26 November 2011
Hitler decided to starve the city out. Almost succeeded. 750,000 civilians
died of hunger and disease. Greatest loss of life in any modern city.
Tragedy minimised, sanitised by Soviets, embarrassed that Germans had got so
far [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/siege-leningrad-60-years
[15]Her Honor
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15. http://b.rw/vRXxxo
Dahlia Lithwick | New York | 27 November 2011
Excellent, sympathetic profile of Elena Kagan, a year and a bit into her job
as US Supreme Court justice. She's a listener; a liberal, yes; has a finely
tuned social sense. But nothing kneejerk about her. She maddens liberals too
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/her-honor
FiveBooks Interview
[17]David Cannadine on the British Empire
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-cannadine-on-british-empire
The history professor tells us why it’s less interesting to argue about
whether Empire was a force for good or ill, than to understand how it worked
and why it fell apart. He suggests a reading list to get us started [18]Read
on
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-cannadine-on-british-empire
Featured Topic
[19]The Occupy Movement
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
From New York to California, and many places inbetween, they are protesting.
But who are they, what do they want and what does it all mean? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/occupy-movement
Reader Recommendations
[21]polit2k The Euro Area Is Coming to an End: Peter Boone and Simon Johnson
- Bloomberg [22]t.co/R961YvqC via @[23]BloombergView #[24]gfc2
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/the-euro-area-is-coming-to-an-end-peter-boone-and-simon-johnson.html
23. http://twitter.com/BloombergView
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
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27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/custer-died-your-sins-by-vine-deloria-jr
[28]Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/custer-died-your-sins-by-vine-deloria-jr
[29]Colin Calloway says: “A groundbreaking collection of essays which takes
pot shots at federal Indian policies and Anglo academics who made their
careers as ‘Indian experts’” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-calloway-on-native-americans-and-colonisers
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Warriors Of Goja
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/warriors-goja
Hang in for 30 seconds until they eat the light bulbs. Then you'll be hooked
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Felix Salmon, on bankers
Links:
33. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/11/23/the-lessons-of-margin-call
"Wall Street isn’t picking the pockets of the 99% and giving the proceeds
to the 1%. It’s picking the pockets of the 1% and giving the proceeds to
itself"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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