Newsletter 661
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Why Are Russians Attracted To Strong Leaders?
Links:
5. http://b.rw/IvAbwz
Geoffrey Hosking | OUP Blog | 4 May 2012
"They fear both external invasion and internal subversion. Their
frontiers are very long and open. They have suffered invasion many
times. Russians will support almost any regime which offers them
security from attack" [6]Comments
Links:
6. https://thebrowser.com/articles/why-are-russians-attracted-strong-leaders
[7]What Retail Is Hired To Do
Links:
7. http://b.rw/K09PYI
Horace Dediu and Dirk Schmidt | Asymco | 4 May 2012
Comparative study of Ikea's and Apple's retail strategies. "Both
operations are positioned around a job-to-be-done that has a high
priority in people’s life". At Apple, learn about technology. At Ikea,
furnish your home [8]Comments
Links:
8. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-retail-hired-do
[9]A Conversation With Sherry Turkle
Links:
9. http://b.rw/Kzrmm9
James Nolan | Hedgehog Review | 30 April 2012
MIT professor discusses social networks, and social robots. "People
feel that they are not being heard, that no one is listening. They have
a fantasy that finally, in a machine, they will have a nonjudgmental
companion" [10]Comments
Links:
10. https://thebrowser.com/articles/conversation-sherry-turkle
[11]Consuming Women
Links:
11. http://b.rw/IrNq2D
Ian Sinclair & Jennifer Hayashi Danns | New Left Project | 3 May 2012
Former lap dancer speaks out against the industry she left. "Lap
dancing is just an effect of a society that does not truly value women
and, as hard as it may be to accept, a society in which women do not
value themselves" [12]Comments
Links:
12. https://thebrowser.com/articles/consuming-women
[13]Tokyo Through The Letterbox
Links:
13. http://b.rw/KoHwnO
Pachiguy | Spike Japan | 4 May 2012
Rust-porn ramble through Mishima's Tokyo: "Unshaven, unshowered Tokyo,
Tokyo with its make-up off last thing at night, a place of battered
plastic bottles strapped with green duct tape and nylon string around a
lamppost" [14]Comments
Links:
14. https://thebrowser.com/articles/tokyo-through-letterbox
[15]Liberalism After Liberalism
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IJpQ6c
Wilfred McClay | First Things | 24 April 2012
"Like other key words of American political and cultural discourse, the
term liberalism suffers from a frustrating, even maddening, degree of
ambiguity and imprecision in the way it is used." Here's how it's
meaning has shifted [16]Comments
Links:
16. https://thebrowser.com/articles/liberalism-after-liberalism
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Ma Jian on Chinese Dissident Literature
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/ma-jian-on-chinese-dissident-literature
Writers in China are afraid to criticise their state and society, says
the London-based author. He picks five works of Chinese literature,
from the 3rd century BC to 2008, which show how it’s done [18]Read on
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/ma-jian-on-chinese-dissident-literature
Featured Special Report
[19]Population and Resources
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [20]Read on
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Reader Recommendations
[21]nuzav Never Mind Europe. Worry About
India. [22]t.co/4MB727an #[23]Browsings [24]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/nuzav
22. http://t.co/4MB727an
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#Browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/letter-women-england-by-mary-robinson
[26]A Letter to the Women of England by Mary Robinson
Links:
26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/letter-women-england-by-mary-robinson
[27]Faramerz Dabhoiwala says: Mary Robinson, whose stage name was
Perdita and who was known as Mary “Perdita” Robinson, really epitomises
the new opportunities for women that opened up in the 18th century.
[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution?page=2
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]The Economist: Animated Style Guide
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/videos/economist-animated-style-guide
Cartoonist KAL explains, inter alia, the difference between blooded and
bloodied [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Darryl Pinckney, on black history
Links:
31. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/24/big-changes-black-america
"Although black people are in the mainstream, black history isn’t,
because basic things about the history of being black in America
have to be explained again and again"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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