Newsletter 656
[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]The True Lessons Of The Recession
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5. http://b.rw/IEoaUS
Raghuram Rajan | Booth School of Business/Foreign Affairs | 30 April
2012
Excellent, authoritative and measured overview of today's economic
ills. Much papering-over of cracks in past few decades. Status quo ante
not a good place to return to. So here are some suggestions for ways
forward (PDF) [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/true-lessons-recession
[7]What To Do About The Rich?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/IqcbP2
Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 27 April 2012
"For the rich the spirit of cooperation on which democracy depends is
only an option, not a necessity. When the rich engage in politics they
are not under the same constraints as the rest of us to find a mutually
agreeable solution" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-do-about-rich
[9]Greatest Films Of All Time
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ISdG8G
Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert's Journal | 26 April 2012
Film critic prepares his nominations for the poll organised each decade
by "Sight and Sound". Out goes Kieslowski's "Dekalog", on a
technicality. In comes Malick's "Tree of Life", just ahead of Kaufman's
"Synecdoche, New York" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greatest-films-all-time
[11]South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom
Links:
11. http://b.rw/Kn22ig
Nadine Gordimer | NYRB | 30 April 2012
"In the new South Africa that was reborn in the early 1990s, with its
freedom hard-won from apartheid, we now have the imminent threat of
updated versions of the suppression of freedom of expression that
gagged us under apartheid" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/south-africa-new-threat-freedom
[13]The Perfect City Is Under Construction
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IAhKLW
Will Doig | Salon | 28 April 2012
Portugal's PlanIT Valley aims to be first "sentient" city. But if faces
challenges. "Humans will act in ways that even the smartest computer
model can fail to anticipate — which is fine, until you put your entire
city in its hands" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/perfect-city-under-construction
[15]Against Law, For Order
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IAq2og
Mike Konczal | Jacobin | 23 April 2012
"A government that creates mass incarceration is the obvious result of
the ideologies of neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism that have come to
dominate in the wake of the New Deal liberal order’s collapse." Here's
why [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/against-law-order
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Jules Evans on Ancient Philosophy for Modern Life
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jules-evans-on-ancient-philosophy-modern-life
The author explores philosophy lessons of the ancients relevant to our
globalised, information age – by way of cognitive behavioural therapy,
and government measures of happiness [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jules-evans-on-ancient-philosophy-modern-life
Featured Special Report
[19]Democracy
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Are Western states true democracies? Has democracy become a casualty of
the financial crisis? Can you have too much democracy? Read on to find
out [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
[21]iainmanley South Africa's "hinterland became an equivalent of
Shenzhen": How history haunts us, by Jeremy Cronin - [22]t.co/PfrJdVJl,
[23]#browsings [24]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/iainmanley
22. http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/04/29/how-history-haunts-us
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]The English Common Reader by Richard Altick
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/english-common-reader-by-richard-altick
[26]William St Clair says: This is so sparkling and so full of
information. Altick challenged conventional wisdom of what literary
studies could be [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-st-clair-on-reading-romantics
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Venice in a Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/venice-day
Not quite the city of "Don't Look Now"
[29]More videos
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]John Girdwood, on rhetoric
Links:
30. http://politicalpipeline.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/a-new-model-to-determine-whether-or-not-a-country-is-a-democracy
"There are three major political languages in America: liberalism,
republicanism, and biblical thought"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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