Newsletter 673
[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]The Endangered Public Company
Links:
5. http://b.rw/Kyup2x
Anonymous | Economist | 18 May 2012
Public companies "filled the world with cars and televisions and
computers. They brought transparency to business life and opportunities
to small investors." But now many companies choose to stay private.
Does it matter? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/endangered-public-company
[7]Israel In Peril
Links:
7. http://b.rw/KyATP0
David Shulman | NYRB | 18 May 2012
"Israeli policy is almost entirely mortgaged to the settler enterprise,
to the appropriation of more and more Palestinian land." With such
disenfranchisement, "every passing day makes a South African trajectory
more likely" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/israel-peril
[9]Investigating JPMorgan Chase
Links:
9. http://b.rw/JlWN2o
Simon Johnson | NYT | 17 May 2012
JPMorgan Chase is too big to fail; it operates with the implicit
backing of the US government. So its recent trading losses should be
investigated independently. In the same way as air crashes and near
misses are investigated [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/investigating-jpmorgan-chase
[11]The Peculiar Legacies Of Walter Scott
Links:
11. http://b.rw/Mlgw8l
John Sutherland | TLS | 16 May 2012
Two centuries on, his books are scarcely read—but his influence is
immortal. His stories and characters live on in operas, plays, films
and children's books. The popular narrative of Scotland is still
largely his invention [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/peculiar-legacies-walter-scott
[13]Preying On The Poor
Links:
13. http://b.rw/KyBwb8
Barbara Ehrenreich | Huffington Post/TomDispatch | 17 May 2012
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves. Collectively,
they provide a juicy target. "The trick is to rob them in ways that are
systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual
perpetrators" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/preying-poor
[15]Ken Doyle, Safecracker
Links:
15. http://b.rw/JQWvol
Suzanne Yeagley | McSweeney's | 12 May 2012
Interview. Not burglar, but locksmith. "Usually the victims are
children or seniors. Grandpa is busy examining the contents of his safe
deposit box at closing time when a bank employee performs the
vault-closing procedure" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ken-doyle-safecracker
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Philip Ball on the Origins of Curiosity
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-ball-on-origins-curiosity
Modern science emerged only when it became acceptable to ask any
question about anything – and that required erosion of traditional
hierarchies, says the science writer [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-ball-on-origins-curiosity
Featured Special Report
[19]Crime & Thriller Writing
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/crime-thriller-writing
Leading writers discuss their genre and select their top five essential
reads, plus selected articles on the murky world of thrillers and
whodunnits [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/crime-thriller-writing
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k Cameron is consigning the UK to stagnation | Martin Wolf | FT
[21]t.co/3orVmS0B h/t TimHarford #austerity [22]#browsings [23]More
like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/3orVmS0B
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/louisiana-saturday-night-by-alex-v-cook
[25]Louisiana Saturday Night by Alex V Cook
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/louisiana-saturday-night-by-alex-v-cook
[26]Keith Spera says: “Alex wrote what is essentially a guidebook
crossed with a travelogue of these tiny local dance halls. Some of them
are like travelling back in time” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-spera-on-music-new-orleans
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Ken Burns On Story
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/ken-burns-story
"The stories where one and one equals three, those are the stories I am
interested in" [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Michael Sandel, on democracy
Links:
30. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/17/what-money-cant-buy-michael-sandel-review
"Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require
that citizens share a common life"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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