Newsletter 588
[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]The Conversion
Links:
5. http://b.rw/A9XXmK
William Saletan | Slate | 22 February 2012
"To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult
passage of his political life: How he changed his position on abortion.
Not the story he tells about it, but the real story." A painstaking,
fascinating piece [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conversion
[7]Research, No Motion
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zutOou
Jesse Hicks | Verge | 21 February 2012
Outstanding analysis of Research In Motion: Its history, management,
failure to capitalise on early BlackBerry success, and future
potential. Are we watching the end of a once iconic brand? Or the start
of a turnaround? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/research-no-motion
[9]Scott Ritter's Other War
Links:
9. http://b.rw/wpGUvJ
Matt Bai | NYT | 22 February 2012
Bai meets UN weapons inspector who argued against US invasion of Iraq.
And was later convicted of sex offences. "Everybody who lied about the
war got rewarded. Because they played the game. Tell the truth, you
don't get rewarded" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/scott-ritters-other-war
[11]Evil Overlords Or Lucky Devils
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wMX8px
Anonymous | TimeOut Hong Kong | 20 February 2012
Hong Kong is a bastion of free-market capitalism, right? Wrong. These
days it's more of an oligarchy. Four family-owned conglomerates
dominate the economy. They've captured the regulators, they've got
government in their pocket [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/evil-overlords-or-lucky-devils
[13]Race Finished
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xeItYT
Jan Sapp | American Scientist | 19 February 2012
Caucasian, African, Mongoloid – we've all heard the terms. But is race
a fundamental biological concept? Or is the whole notion of human races
a myth? Important questions, clearly answered by way of a double book
review [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/race-finished
[15]Never Surrender: The Lonely War Of Hiroo Onoda
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yPqPcz
Giles Milton | Surviving History | 21 February 2012
In 1944, elite Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was sent to the Filipino
island of Lubang on a mission to carry out sabotage attacks. He was
ordered never to surrender. And he didn't. Not until 29 years after the
war ended [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/never-surrender-lonely-war-hiroo-onoda
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Gabriel Piterberg on Zionism and Anti-Zionism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gabriel-piterberg-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism
An Israeli historian, who rejects Zionism, tells us about works of
scholarship that have challenged the Zionist Israeli narrative of
modern history [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gabriel-piterberg-on-zionism-and-anti-zionism
Featured Special Report
[19]David Foster Wallace
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/david-foster-wallace
In memory of one of America's finest modern fiction writers [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/david-foster-wallace
Reader Recommendations
@[21]rszbt Would it have made a difference? MT
@[22]polit2k @[23]delong: The Memo Larry Summers Didn’t Want Obama to
See [24]t.co/ngWZPtDE #[25]gfc2 [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/rszbt
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/delong
24. http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/100961/memo-Larry-Summers-Obama
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carré
[29]Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carré
[30]Sam Bourne says: “This is an example of the meticulously supreme
thriller. It is an amazingly satisfying read and just a perfectly
constructed book” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sam-bourne-on-classic-thrillers
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]The Eurozone, The Ant And The Grasshopper
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/eurozone-ant-and-grasshopper
Former adviser to Greek PM says eurozone is disintegrating, but here's
how to resolve the crisis...
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Andrew Nathan, on diplomacy
Links:
34. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67926/andrew-j-nathan/what-china-wants?cid=soc-twitter-in-review_essays-what_china_wants-021812
"American diplomacy is transactional; Chinese diplomacy,
psychological"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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