Newsletter 638
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
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[5]A Short History Of Neoliberalism
Links:
5. http://b.rw/HrMJFU
Jason Hickel | New Left Project | 9 April 2012
The richest 358 people on earth possess as much wealth as the poorest
45% (2.3 billion people). Super, left-leaning, essay looks at how this
happened, the flaws of neoliberal economics, and how we might improve
things [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/short-history-neoliberalism
[7]The Second-Term Illusion
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HCJZtC
Aaron David Miller | Foreign Policy | 11 April 2012
Do you think a second-term Obama presidency, freed from re-election
concerns, will tackle Netanyahu and push for Middle East peace? Here's
why it won't happen (and it's not because of the Israel lobby)
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/second-term-illusion
[9]Uzbekistan's Policy Of Secretly Sterilising Women
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ICTwik
Natalia Antelava | BBC | 12 April 2012
"After months of mysterious pain and heavy bleeding after the birth,
she had an ultrasound and discovered that her uterus had been removed.
'They just said to me, 'What do you need more children for? You already
have two'" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/uzbekistans-policy-secretly-sterilising-women
[11]150 Miles Of Hell
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HATyJC
Jeff Tietz | Men's Journal | 4 April 2012
A visit to America's most lawless area, a remote corridor on the
US/Mexico border linking Nogales with Phoenix. It's the preferred drug
trafficking route of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Murders, rapes,
decapitations are commonplace [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/150-miles-hell
[13]New View Of Depression: An Ailment Of The Entire Body
Links:
13. http://b.rw/HyVhK8
Shirley Wang | WSJ | 9 April 2012
Scientists have worked out that the same changes to chromosomes that
occur with ageing also occur with severe stress and depression. This
"accelerated ageing" effect suggests depression is a body-wide illness,
not just psychological [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-view-depression-ailment-entire-body
[15]The Inconvenient Astrologer Of MI5
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HDXANU
Emma Garman | Awl | 11 April 2012
Britain was desperate to persuade the US to join World War II. So
desperate, it turns out, that Churchill sent an astrologer to America
in an effort to convince the public that Hitler planned to attack. This
is his strange story [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inconvenient-astrologer-mi5
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Niall Ferguson on Intellectual Influences
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
The historian tells us about the diverse influences on his work, from
Keynes and Tolstoy to an Austrian satirist, and explains why he sees
the world as a complex place on the edge of chaos [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/niall-ferguson-on-intellectual-influences
Featured Special Report
[19]The Killing of Trayvon Martin
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
On the case that has pitched America into soul-searching and division
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/killing-trayvon-martin
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k RT @pierrebri: Young, French and desperate [21]t.co/RrO3ynM7
via @reuters #browsings #gfc2 [22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/RrO3ynM7
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/tales-army-life-by-leo-tolstoy
[25]Tales of Army Life by Leo Tolstoy
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tales-army-life-by-leo-tolstoy
[26]John Gittings says: “His position is of categorical non-violence.
He asked the question, what is the reality of war?” [27]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gittings-on-peace
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich?
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-did-mitt-romney-get-so-obscenely-rich
Robert Reich takes a swipe at private equity
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]James Wood, on hypocrisy
Links:
30. http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/post/20981404706
“The hypocrite may serve, among other things, as a deformed
ambassador of the truth”
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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