Newsletter 541
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Reversal Of Fortune
Links:
5. http://b.rw/y9DBxH
Patrick Radden Keefe | New Yorker | 2 January 2012
Story of epic battle between big oil and American lawyer acting for
residents of Ecuadoran Amazon. Fascinating on tactics of corporate giant
faced with class-action suit, and shades of grey that emerge in plaintiffs'
case [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reversal-fortune
[7]Does Stimulus Cure Recession?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yaNzhF
Terry Arthur | Adam Smith Institute | 6 January 2012
An answer from Austrian school of economics, home of Hayek. Keynesian
stimulus spending useless. To exit recession "all the government needs to do
is remove interest rate distortions, get out of the way and watch the market
work" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/does-stimulus-cure-recession
[9]What Has Happened To The ANC?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/zYy4Gy
Richard Dowden | African Arguments | 6 January 2012
Superb, succinct critique of South Africa's governing party, this week
celebrating centenary of its birth. Lavishly, and at expense of South
African taxpayers. Party of Mandela and anti-apartheid struggle looks
inglorious now [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-has-happened-anc
[11]Barry Minkow: All-American Con Man
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yJuhVJ
Roger Parloff | Fortune | 5 January 2012
"Minkow is blessed with intelligence, courage, indomitable drive, rhetorical
gifts, an apparent desire to do good, and a record of documented beneficent
deeds. Yet he also keeps doing ghastly things." This is his remarkable story
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/barry-minkow-all-american-con-man
[13]Christopher Hitchens
Links:
13. http://b.rw/yrmZtU
Salman Rushdie | Tumblr/Vanity Fair | 5 January 2012
Rushdie's tribute to his great friend and ally. "I have often been asked if
Christopher defended me because he was my close friend. The truth is that he
became my close friend because he wanted to defend me." And he was
magnificent [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/christopher-hitchens
[15]The Man Who Started The Sexual Revolution
Links:
15. http://b.rw/wSDSvQ
James Murphy | TLS | 5 January 2012
Re-visiting one of Freud's most intriguing students, Wilhelm Reich. Coined
phrase "sexual revolution". Developed real-life predecessor to Woody Allen's
ficional Orgasmatron, The Orgone Accumulator. Even persuaded Einstein to
test it [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/man-who-started-sexual-revolution
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Gary Taubes on Dieting
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gary-taubes-on-dieting
Sticking to your new year’s resolutions? Still digesting Christmas lunch?
Ignore the conventional wisdom, says the diet expert – it’s carbs and
refined sugars that are keeping you a belt-hole too broad, not meat and fats
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gary-taubes-on-dieting
Featured Special Report
[19]Sex
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sex
Call girls, bondage, pornography, naked yoga, adultery and the science of
sperm; it's all here but maybe NSFW [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sex
Reader Recommendations
_@smiler29_ hmmmmm just started Bikram Yoga and now this How Yoga Can Wreck
Your Body [21]t.co/8pC7PwfG [22]#browsings [23]More like this
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22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/couples-by-john-updike
[25]Couples by John Updike
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/couples-by-john-updike
[26]William Boyd says: “The book is a fantastically acute and brilliantly
well-observed account of society. It gets the human condition really well”
[27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-boyd-on-writers-who-have-inspired-me
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]The # 1 Rock Climber In The World
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/1-rock-climber-world
Free solo climbing with Alex Honnold. No ropes. Just a massive cliff, one
man and a battle against gravity. Astonishing
[29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]David Runciman, on politics
Links:
30. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n01/david-runciman/will-we-be-all-right-in-the-end
"In a crisis democracies can experiment with autocracy, but autocracies
can’t experiment with democracy"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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