Newsletter 557
[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]Afghanistan: The Best Way To Peace
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5. http://b.rw/xR50ow
Anatol Lieven | NYRB | 20 January 2012
Wide-ranging review-essay. In brief: Western occupation of Afghanistan
has been even more incompetent and self-destructive than the Soviet
one. We've reached deadlock with Taliban. So talk to them. Make it a
peaceful deadlock [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/afghanistan-best-way-peace
[7]Blowing Up The Book
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yqLyny
Alexandra Alter | WSJ | 20 January 2012
Intriguing look at a new generation of "enhanced e-books". Digital
titles that include videos, songs, animated graphics, all woven into
the text. Do they represent the future of publishing? Or will they
struggle to go mainstream? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/blowing-book
[9]Should A Captain Go Down With His Ship?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/yyIw2l
Theodore Dalrymple | Telegraph | 18 January 2012
On courage and duty in the workplace. What does an employer have the
right to expect? How do any of us know how we'll react when tested? And
what happens afterwards? Costa Concordia captain's story is all too
human [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/should-captain-go-down-his-ship
[11]The Splintered Skeptic
Links:
11. http://b.rw/w6La2N
Richard Marshall | 3AM Magazine | 20 January 2012
Fascinating interview with philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel. "There’s no
way to develop an ambitious, broad-ranging, self-consistent
metaphysical system without doing serious violence to common sense
somewhere. It's just impossible" [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/splintered-skeptic
[13]Will Emerging Markets Fall In 2012?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/yU8Zcf
Jeffrey Frankel | Project Syndicate | 20 January 2012
"Will China experience a hard landing? Will a decline in commodity
prices hit Latin America? Will the European Union’s sovereign-debt woes
spread to neighbours such as Turkey?" Here's a theory suggesting the
answer "yes" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/will-emerging-markets-fall-2012
[15]The First Sexual Revolution
Links:
15. http://b.rw/xIhJsD
Faramerz Dabhoiwala | Guardian | 20 January 2012
Fine essay on the origins of sexual liberation. In mid-seventeenth
century adulterers, if caught, were simply executed. But within a
hundred years, everything had changed. Even pregnant brides were
commonplace. Why the turnaround? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/first-sexual-revolution
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Will Hutton on Fairness and Inequality
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
In contemporary capitalist societies, some inequality is inevitable and
desirable. But the rewards for the few at the top have soared while the
rest have been squeezed. We need a new social contract, says the author
and columnist [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
Featured Special Report
[19]Sport's Violence Problem
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Nobody wants to take away the thrill and drama of the NFL or NHL, but
is middle age dementia an acceptable price for ex-players to pay?
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k MT @AchimMuellers: Behavioral Pricing: A consumer’s worst
nightmare, a merchant’s dream t.co/nOOpq6Qh #gfc2 #browsings #marketing
[21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
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22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sincerity-and-authenticity-by-lionel-trilling
[23]Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
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23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/sincerity-and-authenticity-by-lionel-trilling
[24]Charles Foster says: “This is a must read for anybody to break free
of the chains with which we live in our obsession with sincerity and
authenticity” [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-foster-on-living-prudently
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Lifecycle
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26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/lifecycle
365 days in the life of a bicycle chained to a post in a New York
street [27]More videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Douglas Allen, on accountability
Links:
28. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2011/12/the-institutional-revolution
"Men, when they know they can blame nature, will behave badly"
[29]More quotes
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29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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