Newsletter 671
[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]On Censorship
Links:
5. http://b.rw/Jvn30A
Salman Rushdie | New Yorker | 15 May 2012
Superb short essay in favour of boat-rocking. "Originality is
dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles
moral codes." This is where great art comes from. If we believe in
liberty, we must celebrate it [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/censorship
[7]Economic Case For Same-Sex Marriage
Links:
7. http://b.rw/JQKDme
Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers | Bloomberg | 15 May 2012
"The joining of husband and wife yields a more productive firm, because
it allows one spouse to specialise in earning income from working in
the market, while the other specialises in the domestic sphere." But
times change [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/economic-case-same-sex-marriage
[9]Imagining Myself In Palestine
Links:
9. http://b.rw/L6d6XV
Randa Jarrar | Guernica | 14 May 2012
American citizen of Palestinian descent flies to Israel, aiming to
visit sister in West Bank. On landing in Tel Aviv she faces
immigration. Despite best preparations, it doesn't go well. Soon she's
sent to the "Arab room" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/imagining-myself-palestine
[11]How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet
Links:
11. http://b.rw/JQQWXc
Mat Honan | Gizmodo | 15 May 2012
"This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been
done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today.
This is the story of Flickr." A revolutionary photo sharing service,
destroyed by Yahoo [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-internet
[13]A Splash Of Marilyn
Links:
13. http://b.rw/JvgcnF
Lawrence Schiller | Vanity Fair | 8 May 2012
Photographing Marilyn Monroe. Lawrence Schiller did it, to great
effect. His account of working with the flirtatious, calculating star
has shades of a coming-of-age story and makes for surprisingly
compulsive reading [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/splash-marilyn
[15]My Daughter's Favorite Sport
Links:
15. http://b.rw/JQY7hX
Joe Posnanski | Joe Blogs | 15 May 2012
Sportswriter's daughter had never shown much interest in his area of
expertise. Then, unaccountably, she developed an interest in NASCAR,
one of the few sports her father knew virtually nothing about. Eh?
Classic, charming Posnanski [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-daughters-favorite-sport
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Julia Lovell on the Opium War
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/julia-lovell-on-opium-war
The 19th century opium war marked the clash of the world’s great
empires of the age – Britain and China. The historian says its legacy
of Chinese humiliation is still felt keenly in Beijing [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/julia-lovell-on-opium-war
Featured Special Report
[19]Paying for the US Election
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
How much is Romney vs Obama 2012 going to cost? Who's paying? And what
do they expect in return? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k RT @[22]ritholtz: Paul Volcker on Jamie
Dimon [23]t.co/NWWpdSFw $$ #[24]browsings (video) [25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/ritholtz
23. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/05/paul-volcker-on-jamie-dimon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/longshot-by-dick-francis
[27]Longshot by Dick Francis
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/longshot-by-dick-francis
[28]Mary King says: “Dick Francis was a former jockey. Every book I
have read of his is very exciting. There is always lots of mystery and
intrigue, and a bit of romance” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mary-king-on-equestrian-life
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Welcome To Life
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/welcome-life
What you will see when you get reborn, as required by the legal
department [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Marc Hanna, on politics
Links:
32. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/time-start-thinking-edward-luce-review
"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is
money, and I can't remember what the second one is"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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