Newsletter 595
[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]How Gogol Explains The Post-Soviet World
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5. http://b.rw/zhXo0k
Thomas de Waal | Foreign Policy | 27 February 2012
"Here is a not entirely frivolous suggestion: How about skipping the
political science textbooks when it comes to trying to understand the
former Soviet Union and instead opening up the pages of Gogol, Chekhov,
and Dostoyevsky?" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-gogol-explains-post-soviet-world
[7]A Silicon Valley Tale Of Humiliation And Revenge
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zgQbki
Burt Helm | Inc | 28 February 2012
Extraordinary tale of Khalid Shaikh, whose ill-fated tenure as
co-founder of online file-sharing service YouSendIt turned him from
successful entrepreneur to convicted criminal. Long, but compelling
account [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/silicon-valley-tale-humiliation-and-revenge
[9]Romney Has Big Night; So Does Obama
Links:
9. http://b.rw/zN3m5M
John Cassidy | New Yorker | 29 February 2012
"If Romney isn’t quite restored to his position as 'Mr Inevitable,'
he’s 'Mr Very, Very Likely.' But it is difficult to see how he can
change the underlying dynamic of the race, which is slowly but surely
dragging him down" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/romney-has-big-night-so-does-obama
[11]Ayn Rand: The Tea Party’s Miscast Matriarch
Links:
11. http://b.rw/xNvuW8
Pam Martens | Counterpunch | 27 February 2012
Caustic, unforgiving takedown of Ayn Rand, philosophical figurehead of
the Tea Party, and her "mindless irrationality". Those who promote her
work today don't escape either. (Featuring best Harold Bloom quote
you'll read this week) [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ayn-rand-tea-party’s-miscast-matriarch
[13]Bringing Mecca To The British Museum
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13. http://b.rw/w6w3iA
Malise Ruthven | NYRB | 27 February 2012
Exhibition dedicated to Muslim pilgrimage is put on with Saudi help.
Scholarly questions are ignored in order to accommodate Saudi and
Muslim sensitivities. Is this a price worth paying, if there's a wider
societal benefit? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bringing-mecca-british-museum
[15]Game Over
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15. http://b.rw/yq3wHm
Bob Friel | Outside | 22 February 2012
The Cessna fired its engines and soared into the blue sky, on
Independence Day. The pilot had no flying qualifications. Just an
extensive criminal record. And an urgent need to reach Cuba. This is
the story of the Barefoot Bandit [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/game-over
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Peggy Orenstein on the Gender Trap
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peggy-orenstein-on-gender-trap
From an early age, girls learn to be pretty in pink while boys are
marketed a prepackaged masculinity. The author of Cinderella Ate My
Daughter explains how parents can give their children a broader, more
imaginative outlook [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peggy-orenstein-on-gender-trap
Featured Special Report
[19]American Prisons
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
An epidemic of incarceration. A prison system that provides neither
retributive justice nor rehabilitation. Is this America's moral
catastrophe? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav New Statesman - The God wars [22]t.co/6v7Y8xiP
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2012/02/neo-atheism-atheists-dawkins
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24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/confessions-st-augustine-by-augustine-hippo
[26]The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/confessions-st-augustine-by-augustine-hippo
[27]Richard Harries says: “It is a wonderfully personal book, but not
in a lurid sense like a modern confession. You get an insight into a
passionate mind on a spiritual journey”[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-harries-on-christianity
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]You Are Not So Smart
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/you-are-not-so-smart
"When you want things to line up, you see patterns everywhere" [30]More
videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Paul Graham, on reading
Links:
31. http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
"There's no test of how well you've read a book, and that's why
merely reading books doesn't quite feel like work"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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