Newsletter 604
[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 Promise Of Russia's Urban Middle Class
Links:
5. http://b.rw/w5BFtw
Condoleezza Rice | Washington Post | 9 March 2012
"Putin has staked his legitimacy on prosperity and order, but he seemed
not to understand that a prosperous population would demand respect,
too. In declaring that he would be president again, he insulted the
Russian people" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/promise-russias-urban-middle-class
[7]Who Would God Vote For?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/zKuWv1
Adam Curtis | BBC | 6 March 2012
"In the 1970s everything changed. For that was the moment when religion
was deliberately brought into politics in both America and Iran with
the aim of using it as a revolutionary force." Curtis tells the story
of how it happened [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/who-would-god-vote
[9]Finance And Corruption
Links:
9. http://b.rw/y8yHe7
Robert Shiller | Bloomberg | 8 March 2012
Fourth and best extract from Shiller's new book. Financial elite is
like an Indian caste. "They realise an immense economic advantage.
Fearful of compromising that advantage, they adhere to the caste’s
social norms" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/finance-and-corruption
[11]Our Corrupt Politics: It’s Not All Money
Links:
11. http://b.rw/zZta94
Ezra Klein | NYRB | 1 March 2012
Review of books on lobbying, by Laurence Lessig and Jack Abramoff. The
threat to democracy comes not from bribery, which is rare. It comes
from "legislative subsidy", a nice way of saying that the lobbyists get
to write the laws [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-corrupt-politics-it’s-not-all-money
[13]What Happened To The Girls In Le Roy
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zDz0yQ
Susan Dominus | NYT | 7 March 2012
"A lot of these kids were having a happy, normal life." And then they
started twitching. Quite a lot. What happened when mass psychogenic
illness, or mass hysteria, descended on the town of Le Roy, in upstate
New York [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-happened-girls-le-roy
[15]Ghosts In The Newsroom
Links:
15. http://b.rw/w9dCIm
Sarah Ellison | Vanity Fair | 7 March 2012
"Sad story, isn't it?" On money, management battles and missed
opportunities at the Washington Post. Under the successors of Katherine
Graham and Ben Bradlee, is the paper still punching its weight?
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ghosts-newsroom
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Alexandra Harris on Modernism
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Modernism is about form more than content, says the scholar of English
literature. She tells us about the history of the movement, and picks
five works that exemplify or explain it [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alexandra-harris-on-modernism
Featured Special Report
[19]Consciousness
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@whitebluewhite Bravo! Steven Pinker talks about cultural differences
in the context of innate human similarities #TED [21]t.co/xlBXcJ9p
[22]#browsings [23]More like this
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21. http://t.co/xlBXcJ9p
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/estates-by-lynsey-hanley
[25]Estates by Lynsey Hanley
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/estates-by-lynsey-hanley
[26]David Kynaston says: “She grew up on a huge estate that was built
in the sixties. Her descriptions have terrific historical value as a
piece of testimony” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-kynaston-on-social-history-post-war-britain
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Richard Branson
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/richard-branson
Let's not argue over whether this is the best advert ever. It's
certainly one of them [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Robert Shiller, on virtue
Links:
30. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-08/finance-logic-can-banish-corruption-part-4-commentary-by-robert-shiller.html
"Our desire for praise can be truly satisfied only if we deserve it.
No one is satisfied merely to look praiseworthy"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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