Newsletter 642
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
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Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 16 April 2012
Super essay on how Facebook is affecting everday life. "It's not just a
technological marvel, a youth movement or a business story. After just
eight years of existence, Facebook is the biggest social phenomenon
since the telephone" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook
[7]The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HQ9l7X
Daron Acemoglu | MIT Press | 6 April 2012
Essay. Ten trends have defined our economic, social, and political
lives for the past 100 years. The dominant one has been rising demand
for individual rights. Will those trends, or different ones, shape the
coming century? (PDF) [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/world-our-grandchildren-will-inherit
[9]Nile Journey
Links:
9. http://b.rw/J3MTXT
Jeffrey Bartholet | National Geographic | 17 April 2012
Report from post-revolution Egypt. Away from Tahrir, life on the ground
is a confusing mix of aspirations and fears. “It’s as if we have been
lost in the desert. We have found our way, but it will still take a
long time to get out” [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nile-journey
[11]Evening The Odds
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HLJa1L
Nicholas Lemann | New Yorker | 16 April 2012
Tour d'horizon of recent books on American inequality and "Superclass"
including those by Timothy Noah, Charles Murray, David Rothkopf. Key
relationship in society today is no longer church and state, but state
and market [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/evening-odds
[13]Technology In America
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IXJeLg
Michael Sacasas | American | 13 April 2012
Revisiting Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America provides
starting-point for essay questioning the historical effect of America’s
“ideology of technology” on its politics and economy [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/technology-america
[15]The Forty-Year Itch
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HKh7z5
Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 16 April 2012
The people who control what gets commissioned for TV shows are
generally 40-somethings. Their nostalgia is for the era of and just
before their birth. Hence "Mad Men" now. For meanings of the Obama era,
tune in in the 2050s [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/forty-year-itch
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Keith Lowe on the Aftermath of World War Two
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
Europe after the war was a scene of both physical and moral
destruction. The author of Savage Continent recommends essential
reading for understanding the suffering, dislocation and fighting after
the war was over [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-lowe-on-aftermath-world-war-two
Featured Special Report
[19]Healthcare in America
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]Ian_Fraser: John Kay on the illusory nature of
bank profits [23]t.co/sGzdBMRQ #[24]inetBerlin #[25]gfc2 [26]#browsings
[27]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/Ian_Fraser
23. http://www.ianfraser.org/john-kay-on-the-illusory-nature-of-bank-profits
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#inetBerlin
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/southern-california-by-carey-mcwilliams
[29]Southern California by Carey McWilliams
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/southern-california-by-carey-mcwilliams
[30]Dennis McDougal says: “This is a fundamental text for getting a
grasp on what makes Southern California tick, and engendered the plot
of the movie Chinatown” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dennis-mcdougal-on-southern-california
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Great American Foreclosure Song
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/great-american-foreclosure-song
ProPublica enjoyed the mortgage crisis so much that it wrote a little
song about it [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Toby Litt, on reading
Links:
34. http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/The-Reader-And-Technology
"The human race is no longer sufficently bored with life to be
distracted by an art form as boring as the novel"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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