Newsletter 603
[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]Ancient Art Of Fooling Voters
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5. http://b.rw/yZqLbf
Peter Stothard | WSJ | 8 March 2012
Marcus Cicero's younger brother wrote a manual for winning Roman
elections in 64BC. His advice still holds good. "Every day, as you go
down to the Forum, you should say to yourself: 'I am an outsider. I
want to be Consul'." [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ancient-art-fooling-voters
[7]An Executive Power To Kill
Links:
7. http://b.rw/xyEOQL
David Cole | NYRB | 6 March 2012
Taking apart attorney-general Eric Holder's claim that the US president
has the right to order the killing of US citizens, without due process
of law, so long as it's part of the war on terror. It's official. But
is it right? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/executive-power-kill
[9]An Elemental Force
Links:
9. http://b.rw/wft2h4
Gabrielle Hecht | Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists | 1 March 2012
Superb essay. "When does uranium count as a nuclear substance? When
does it lose that status? And what does Africa have to do with it? Such
issues lie at the heart of today’s global nuclear order. Or disorder,
as the case may be" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/elemental-force
[11]Ex-Nazis In Early West Germany
Links:
11. http://b.rw/yzToXh
Ralf Beste et al | Spiegel | 6 March 2012
There never really was a de-Nazification after the war. A few leaders
were executed, a lot of lies were told. But a Nazi past was no barrier
to joining the West German establishment. Half a century later, the
files are open [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ex-nazis-early-west-germany
[13]I Sold My Soul To The Department Of Homeland Security
Links:
13. http://b.rw/xayIpu
Choire Sicha | Awl | 6 March 2012
In which the author registers for the US government's Global Entry
programme, which will "pre-certify" him as having no criminal record,
and thus entitle him to less intrusive customs procedures at airports.
Or so he hopes [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-sold-my-soul-department-homeland-security
[15]Islands With Benefits
Links:
15. http://b.rw/y3k2C3
Cristina Nehring | Condé Nast Traveler | 23 February 2012
"I was tired of sunny, innocuous islands. Islands with the clamor of
coddled children and the courtship of minor celebrities. What I was
after this summer was the opposite. Not cheery, chirpy islands but
moody islands" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/islands-benefits
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Elaine Fox on Optimism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/elaine-fox-on-optimism
The psychologist and professor of cognitive neuroscience reveals the
benefits of positive thinking – if grounded in realism – and why some
of us may be genetically predisposed towards pessimism, but can
overcome it [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/elaine-fox-on-optimism
Featured Special Report
[19]The Death Penalty
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
To kill or not to kill? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/death-penalty
Reader Recommendations
@[21]nuzav Sarah Ellison: Has The Washington Post Lost Its Way? |
Business | Vanity Fair [22]t.co/G0blkHU3 via @ VanityFair
#[23]Browsings
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22. http://t.co/G0blkHU3
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Browsings
[24]More like this
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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/essays-eb-white-by-eb-white
[26]Essays of EB White by EB White
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/essays-eb-white-by-eb-white
[27]Adam Gopnik says: “White, for me, is the great maker of the New
Yorker style. He is a genuinely simple, spare, understated writer”
[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adam-gopnik-on-favourite-essay-collections
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Dollar Shave Club
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/dollar-shave-club
I love it. Especially the bit with the machete and the giant brown bear
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Alain de Botton, on atheism
Links:
31. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/06/religion-for-atheists-alain-de-botton
"The error of modern atheism has been to overlook how many aspects
of faiths remain relevant even after their central tenets have been
dismissed”
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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