Newsletter 528
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[5]On Being The Right Size
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vfxoiJ
J.B.S. Haldane | Farnham Street | 20 December 2011
Republished, and still well worth a read. "For every type of animal there is
an optimum size. The same is true for every human institution. The English
invention of representative government made a democratic nation possible"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/being-right-size
[7]Opening A Bar In Baghdad
Links:
7. http://b.rw/vEew14
Joshua Bearman | Atlantic | 20 December 2011
James, a British ex-paratrooper, opened the Baghdad Country Club in 2006. It
was inside the Green Zone, so local security wasn't too bad. But you needed
strong nerves for the morning drive through Sadr City to pick up beer
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/opening-bar-baghdad
[9]Chuck Berry Goddamn!
Links:
9. http://b.rw/vtlfzu
Luke Dittrich | Esquire | 20 December 2011
Still performing aged 85. "Watching Chuck Berry play here is a little like
watching Einstein, if Einstein had decided to spend his last years in a
makeshift replica of his old patent office, retranscribing the theories of
his youth" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chuck-berry-goddamn
[11]Smoke Screening
Links:
11. http://b.rw/utlIkj
Charles Mann | Vanity Fair | 20 December 2011
Writer tests out US airport security. With a bit of help from expert Bruce
Schneier. And a fake boarding pass. The verdict? Damning: "Not only is it
not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to
do" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/smoke-screening
[13]The Plague
Links:
13. http://b.rw/suzIPX
David Shulman | Boston Review | 19 December 2011
Israeli activists try to stop settlers driving Palestinians out of South
Hebron village. "Its inhabitants include scattered chickens, sheep, a
donkey, camels. No electricity, no running water, no phones, no money, no
hope" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/plague
[15]Leiter Reports
Links:
15. http://b.rw/sbASDJ
Richard Marshall | 3AM Magazine | 19 December 2011
Terrific, wide-ranging interview with Brian Leiter, philosopher and
left-leaning public intellectual. "The idea that Marxism should be reduced
to moralistic sermons is, well, depressing, an admission of intellectual
defeat" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leiter-reports
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Mona Simpson on Family Stories
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mona-simpson-on-family-stories
Family dynamics are changing dramatically in our modern, workaholic age. The
novelist – and sister of Steve Jobs, separated at birth – selects five works
of fiction that illustrate some truths about families in all their variety
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mona-simpson-on-family-stories
Featured Special Report
[19]Syria Revolts
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Months of anti-government protests; a brutal response by the authorities.
But what's really going on in Syria? It's all here [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/syria-revolts
Reader Recommendations
[21]polit2k RT @[22]Alea_: 'The Euro-Zone Bailout Programs Must Be Stopped'
[23]t.co/M9QbSVTr #[24]eurocrisis #[25]gfc2 #[26]gd2 [27]#browsings [28]More
like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/Alea_
23. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,804700,00.html
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gd2
27. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
28. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[29]Book of the Day
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/deathsong-river-by-su-xiaokang-and-wang-luxiang
[30]Deathsong of the River by Su Xiaokang and Wang Luxiang
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/deathsong-river-by-su-xiaokang-and-wang-luxiang
[31]Rana Mitter says: “It’s the script for what one might say was the most
important television programme that has ever been broadcast in China”
[32]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rana-mitter-on-100-years-modern-china
32. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[33]Seconds Of Beauty
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos/seconds-beauty
Compilation of entries for The Beauty Of A Second short film contest.
Absolutely breathtaking
[34]More videos
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[35]Highdeas, on film
Links:
35. http://highdeas.com
"If you watch 'Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps
throwing up people until they have to open a beach"
[36]More quotes
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36. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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