Newsletter 563
[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]The Coming Resolution Of The European Crisis
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5. http://b.rw/zJ5I7e
Fred Bergsten & Jacob Funk Kirkegaard | Vox | 26 January 2012
"We have complete confidence that, in the crunch, both Germany and the
ECB will pay whatever is necessary to avert disaster. The ultimate
political goals of each assure this result." Collapse is simply not
acceptable. Here's why [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/coming-resolution-european-crisis-0
[7]No Responsible Democrat Should Want Gingrich To Get The GOP Nomination
Links:
7. http://b.rw/xbo6RA
Robert Reich | Robert Reich | 26 January 2012
Short, sharp takedown of Newt Gingrich in form of warning to Democrats.
Be careful what you wish for: A Gingrich nomination may make an Obama
victory more likely. But is even the small chance of a Gingrich win a
risk worth taking? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/no-responsible-democrat-should-want-gingrich-get-gop-nomination
[9]Barbarism In Cultured Soil
Links:
9. http://b.rw/xuOFAt
Shehryar Fazli | The India Site | 24 January 2012
Squeezed between Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, Salman
Rushdie’s Shame is almost forgotten. It shouldn’t be [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/barbarism-cultured-soil
[11]East Africa Is The New Epicenter Of America’s Shadow War
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ApU3dm
Spencer Ackerman | Wired | 26 January 2012
The rescue of two Americans from Somalia was not simply a daring
mission, but part of Washington’s new shadow war [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/east-africa-new-epicenter-america’s-shadow-war
[13]The God Gap
Links:
13. http://b.rw/yTRFQP
Stephen Cave | FT | 20 January 2012
"After God's recent execution at the hands of the New Atheists, a
number of thinkers are asking again whether, even in his absence, we
need religion regardless." Enjoyable review of three new books from
Flood, Rosenberg, de Botton [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/god-gap
[15]Can You Be Gay By Choice?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/wRInOR
Brian Earp | Practical Ethics | 26 January 2012
"The gay-rights activist is making a big mistake to put all his chips
in the basket about 'gay is not a choice.' It’s like creationists who
peg their belief in God on the falsity of evolution." Short,
thought-provoking piece [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-you-be-gay-choice
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Francis Fukuyama on the Financial Crisis
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
The author of "The End of History" says the financial crisis revealed a
great deal about the nature of America’s political and economic system.
The shame, he says, is that opportunities to change it are now being
ignored [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis
Featured Special Report
[19]Extreme Food
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our
toothsome selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
polit2k Failing upwards: Living in a bureaucratic world | Tarak Barkawi
| Opinion - Al Jazeera English t.co/pGBAryzt @ajenglish
#browsings[21]More like this
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21. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[22]Book of the Day
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/guide-good-life-by-william-b-irvine
[23]The Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/guide-good-life-by-william-b-irvine
[24]Emrys Westacott says: “Irvine counters the common perception of
Stoicism as advocating a rather tedious, self-denying, joyless
existence. He shows it’s really not like that” [25]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/emrys-westacott-on-philosophy-and-everyday-living
25. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[26]Still Life
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/videos/still-life
Except that it's not still. Next-generation trompe l'oeil [27]More
videos
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27. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[28]Steve Chapman, on privacy
Links:
28. http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/obamas-justices-vs-obama
"Barack Obama has been to civil liberties what the Hindenburg was to
air travel"
[29]More quotes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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