Newsletter 630
[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]Our War Against The Pashtuns
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5. http://b.rw/HWFXb5
Anatol Lieven | NYRB | 3 April 2012
Tipping the balance in favour of one side in a civil war requires deep,
lasting commitment, of a kind the West does not have in Afghanistan.
Pashtuns are too numerous and too opposed to American intervention. So
here's what to do [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/our-war-against-pashtuns
[7]Where Failure Is Rewarded
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HXXE8l
John Plender | TLS | 4 April 2012
No, not banks this time. It's the Catholic church. Review of hostile
new book Render Unto Rome, on the Vatican's finances. Opening salvo? So
far, $2bn has been paid out to settle sex abuse cases. And that's just
in the US [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-failure-rewarded
[9]The Book That Drove Them Crazy
Links:
9. http://b.rw/HT06Cg
Andrew Ferguson | Weekly Standard | 3 April 2012
Allan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind" remembered, 25 years on.
Blockbuster book that opened the culture wars. Inspired 200 reviews,
sold 25,000 copies a week, made Bloom rich. As depicted by Saul Bellow
in "Ravelstein" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/book-drove-them-crazy
[11]CEOs And The Candle Problem
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HNGG1K
Graham Morehead | Nature | 2 April 2012
Super piece on dangers of financial incentives and how they affect
behaviour. "A monetary reward will help your employees focus. That's
the point. When you're focused you are less able to think laterally.
You become dumber" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ceos-and-candle-problem
[13]New Tiger, Old Stripes
Links:
13. http://b.rw/Hg1U5d
Daniel Riley | GQ | 2 April 2012
He's back out there where he used to be: At the top of the betting for
a major championship. And his game looks in fair shape. But what about
Tiger, the man? The headline gives away that he hasn't come back to
golf exactly humbled [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-tiger-old-stripes
[15]CS Lewis On Writing
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Hg1L1B
CS Lewis | Letters Of Note | 3 April 2012
Text of letter CS Lewis sent to a fan in 1956. Contains memorable
advice on writing, correct use of English. Remember: "Never use
abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean 'More people
died' don't say 'Mortality rose'" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cs-lewis-writing
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Neil Fligstein on Economic Sociology
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/neil-fligstein-on-economic-sociology
The author of The Architecture of Markets says it’s important to
understand social aspects of economic behaviour, particularly when
times of crisis reveal shortcomings of traditional economic
theory[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/neil-fligstein-on-economic-sociology
Featured Special Report
[19]Moral Philosophy
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/moral-philosophy
Can we have morality without God? Does surveillance make us better? Do
babies have morals? Get to grips with some big questions of right and
wrong [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/moral-philosophy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]michaelgoldberg Will’s Choice via Boston
University [22]t.co/WhSnDZvd to live, Will Lautzenheiser gave up his
arms and legs, @[23]longreads #[24]browsings
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21. http://twitter.com/michaelgoldberg
22. http://t.co/WhSnDZvd
23. http://twitter.com/longreads
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[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/griftopia-by-matt-taibbi
[27]Griftopia by Matt Taibbi
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/griftopia-by-matt-taibbi
[28]Barry Ritholtz says: “Taibbi is the poet laureate of vitriol. There
is no one better to capture the country’s fury that these banks blew
themselves up, and then twisted Congress’s arm to give them billions of
dollars” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/barry-ritholtz-on-causes-financial-crisis
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Project Glass
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/project-glass
Google's augmented reality glasses. Do you really want this in the
morning? [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Jeanette Winterson, on fiction
Links:
32. http://www.omnivoracious.com/2012/04/art-and-love-an-interview-with-jeanette-winterson.html
"Fiction and poetry are medicines. They heal the rupture that
reality makes on the imagination"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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