Newsletter 591
[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 Decline And Fall Of Parental Authority
Links:
5. http://b.rw/wjC12K
Ron Taffel | AlterNet | 22 February 2012
"I’m seeing mothers and fathers challenge the entire social,
educational, professional, and economic context of childrearing—a
system, they increasingly believe, that’s made effective parenting
almost unachievable" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/decline-and-fall-parental-authority
[7]Teller Reveals His Secrets
Links:
7. http://b.rw/AsHdR4
Teller | Smithsonian | 22 February 2012
"Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done
controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years." So says
Teller, silent half of Penn and Teller. And this is what he's learned
about manipulating the mind [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/teller-reveals-his-secrets
[9]A Case For Workfare
Links:
9. http://b.rw/y8e8RC
Chris Dillow | Stumbling And Mumbling | 20 February 2012
As the crisis rumbles into its fourth year, the real costs are
ever-more apparent. Unemployment is the biggest scourge, and I have a
lot of sympathy with this suggestion for a modern version of the Works
Progress Administration [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/case-workfare
[11]That Time We Beat The Americans
Links:
11. http://b.rw/wnIbtt
Stephen Marche | Walrus | 20 February 2012
Why does Canada exist at all? You have to be a Canadian to ask that
question politely. Here it is, asked and answered. A citizen's guide to
the War of 1812, when the United States tried to take the rest of the
continent and lost [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/time-we-beat-americans
[13]Bioconservatives Vs Bioprogressives
Links:
13. http://b.rw/A1eia9
Ronald Bailey | Reason | 17 February 2012
Fine essay-review of new book on the politics of bioethics:
"Neoconservative worries that alienation and commodification are caused
by technology stem from a worldview that mixes Marxism with the
philosophy of Martin Heidegger" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bioconservatives-vs-bioprogressives
[15]Obituary: Anwar Kamal
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yiqzZc
Anonymous | Economist | 24 February 2012
Pakistani politician, tribal chieftain, country gentleman. "Epitome of
the swashbuckling Frontier rogue." Kept a rocket-propelled
grenade-launcher by the door and a murderer as bodyguard. Led
occasional small wars, reprisals [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-anwar-kamal
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Edith Grossman on Translation
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
The award-winning literary translator discusses books on and of
translation that inspired her, and considers the trade-off between
fidelity and meaning that every translator faces [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/edith-grossman-on-translation
Featured Special Report
[19]Democracy
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Are Western states true democracies? Has democracy become a casualty of
the financial crisis? Can you have too much democracy? Read on to find
out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost |
Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone[22]t.co/uDrxO6cG via
@[23]rollingstone #[24]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/uDrxO6cG
23. http://twitter.com/rollingstone
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[25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/world-s-j-perelman-by-s-j-perelman
[27]The World of S J Perelman by S J Perelman
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/world-s-j-perelman-by-s-j-perelman
[28]Woody Allen says: “The funniest human being in my lifetime, in any
medium — whether it is stand-up, television, theatre, prose or movies —
is S J Perelman” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Hillbrow: Between Heaven and Hell
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/hillbrow-between-heaven-and-hell
A personal journey to the heart of one of South Africa's most dangerous
neighbourhoods
[31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Robert Reich, on Super PACs
Links:
32. http://robertreich.org/post/18021562021
"Never before in the history of our Republic have so few spent so
much to influence the votes of so many"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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