Newsletter 651
[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]Mitt Romney's Dark Knight
Links:
5. http://b.rw/JXY9Fz
Jason Zengerle | GQ | 25 April 2012
Were Romney to beat Obama in November, who would be moving into Karl
Rove's old office? Eric Fehrnstrom, he of the Etch a Sketch gaffe.
Romney's most trusted adviser. Former tabloid reporter who isn't shy
about breaking a few legs [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mitt-romneys-dark-knight
[7]2012 Jefferson Lecture: 'It All Turns On Affection'
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Iv62ki
Wendell Berry | National Endowment For The Humanities | 24 April 2012
On American industrialisation. In the countryside especially, it has
crowded out what was once a "neighborly, kind, and conserving economy",
based on affection. Corporations have no emotions—except, perhaps
greed. h/t Eric Burnette [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/2012-jefferson-lecture-it-all-turns-affection
[9]Velvet Fist
Links:
9. http://b.rw/Irwpa6
Emma Williams | Intelligent Life | 25 April 2012
Profile of Srdja Popovic, Serbian peaceful revolutionary. Helped to
overthrow Milosevic in 2000. Started NGO that has trained pro-democracy
activists in 40 countries. Source of instruction and inspiration for
Arab Spring [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/velvet-fist
[11]The Aid Bitchslap
Links:
11. http://b.rw/I2Viaz
Quinn Zimmerman | Shotgun Shack | 25 April 2012
American aid worker approaches end of two-year stint in Haiti, wonders:
What good did I do? All the imported equipment is broken. Society
continues as it did before. Nobody says thank you. On the contrary,
they hate us [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/aid-bitchslap
[13]German Mercantilism And The Failure Of The Eurozone
Links:
13. http://b.rw/JvHFVd
Heiner Flassbeck | Yanis Varoufakis | 21 April 2012
Eurozone was a good economic idea, but badly designed. Should have
focused on common inflation target, not harmonised public budgets.
Fixing this requires all countries to act, not lopsided belt-tightening
around the Mediterranean [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/german-mercantilism-and-failure-eurozone
[15]Talking With Your Fingers
Links:
15. http://b.rw/JLeY6m
John McWhorter | NYT | 23 April 2012
In defence of texting and email as height of sophistication. They do
not signal the end of formal writing, rather the start of a unique
innovation. "They are not 'writing' in the sense we are accustomed to.
They are fingered speech" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/talking-your-fingers
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Kate Bornstein on Gender Outlaws
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kate-bornstein-on-gender
The author, gender theorist and self-described “SM femme tranny dyke”
tells us why gender isn’t binary, and recommends books that give
long-suppressed voice to the transgender community[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kate-bornstein-on-gender
Featured Special Report
[19]How To Die
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Reader Recommendations
@[21]prospect_uk From Faust to Frankenstein: The Archbishop of
Canterbury on money, markets and morals
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21. http://twitter.com/prospect_uk
22. http://t.co/O8Wny53f
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[24]More like this
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24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/reasons-and-persons-by-derek-parfit
[26]Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/reasons-and-persons-by-derek-parfit
[27]David Edmonds says: “It’s beautifully written, incredibly
thoughtful and well-argued, with fantastically imaginative thought
experiments”[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-edmonds-on-ethical-problems
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Guatemala: The Maya
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/guatemala-maya
Foreigners in their own land
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Henry Kissinger, on defying Congress
Links:
31. http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/document-friday-kissinger-says-the-illegal-we-do-immediately-the-unconstitutional-takes-a-little-longer-but-since-the-foia-im-afraid-to-say-things-like-that
The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little
longer
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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