Newsletter 678
[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
[6]Latter-Day Politics
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6. http://b.rw/KLWHCN
Amy Davidson | New Yorker | 23 May 2012
"In the interest of civility and electoral prudence, neither Obama nor
Romney can initiate a conversation about what it means to be Mormon.
The rest of us should, because the story is complicated, fascinating,
and utterly American" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/latter-day-politics
[8]I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday
Links:
8. http://b.rw/KRYIgB
Toomas Hendrik Ilves | Policy Review | 30 March 2012
View from Estonia. Europe demanded solidarity among its members without
also enforcing responsibility. Profligate countries got a free ride on
the back of thrifty ones. At last the thrifty are crying "enough", and
rightly so [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/i’ll-gladly-pay-you-tuesday
[10]Essentialism: A Conversation
Links:
10. http://b.rw/KeN69c
Bruce Hood | Edge | 17 May 2012
Starts slowly, but skip through the first dozen paragraphs to the stuff
on sentimental objects, and it's absolutely gripping. "The question is,
would a child think that a machine that duplicates objects could
duplicate minds?" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/essentialism-conversation
[12]Transfiguration
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LGiLEr
Raffi Khatchadourian | New Yorker | 13 February 2012
Just ungated. Dallas Wiens lost his face in an electrical accident.
Burned down to the skull. Surgeons gave him another one. A transplant.
Procedure is new, rare, long and complicated. 19 tried. Only this one
has worked well [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/transfiguration
[14]And He Stoned Me
Links:
14. http://b.rw/Lc6Vza
Ray Dolan | Times Higher Education | 24 May 2012
Fan of 40 years reflects on music of Van Morrison: "If the music of
Astral Weeks had mined a deep vein of human pain then Moondance
provided an acute contrast, being in equal measure romantic,
life-affirming and celebratory" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/and-he-stoned-me
[16]Great Gatsby: A Story For The Modern Age
Links:
16. http://b.rw/KdYFNw
Philip Hensher | Telegraph | 23 May 2012
On the Gatsby renaissance. Why now? "The novel, with its clear sense
that money comes and goes, and that detachment from opulence is as
empty a gesture as indulgence in it, seems to come to mind whenever we
aren't doing so well" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/great-gatsby-story-modern-age
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Louise Foxcroft on the History of Medicine and Addiction
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/louise-foxcroft-on-history-medicine-and-addiction
The historian prescribes reading on medical practices of the past, from
treatments of madness and non-existent disease, to drug use and the
origins of hypochondria [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/louise-foxcroft-on-history-medicine-and-addiction
Featured Special Report
[20]Democracy
Links:
20. https://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 [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
[22]rszbt A get-out-of-jail-free card: Time to shoot the black swan?
Still a good read: [23]t.co/0oljdNEN #[24]browsings
@[25]nicholasdunbar [26]More like this
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley
[28]Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley
[29]John Quiggin says: “The lesson I draw from this is that the purpose
of utopia is not so much as an achieved state, as to give people the
freedom to pursue their own projects” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-quiggin-on-utopia
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]The Brotherhood and Mubarak
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/brotherhood-and-mubarak
Thirty years of Islamism in Egypt, from assassination to revolution
[32]More videos
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Anton Chekhov, on art
Links:
33. http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7789
"You confuse two things: solving a problem, and stating a problem
correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for the artist"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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