Newsletter 682
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]In Thrall Of The Empire Of The Sons
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6. http://b.rw/MUA5Cp
John Garnaut | Sydney Morning Herald | 26 May 2012
Fascinating article on nepotism and corruption of China's
"princelings", children of Communist party leaders. "Society and
economy are being held hostage to the wealth-maximising requirements of
the political elite" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/thrall-empire-sons
[8]The End Of The Euro
Links:
8. http://b.rw/MUsvaU
Simon Johnson & Peter Boone | Huffington Post | 27 May 2012
"European politicians are now telling us that an orderly exit for
Greece is feasible under current conditions, and Greece will be the
only nation that leaves. They are wrong." Here's why, and how crisis
could turn to catastrophe [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-euro
[10]A Psychotronic Childhood
Links:
10. http://b.rw/K65W5y
Colson Whitehead | New Yorker | 28 May 2012
Remembering a childhood of horror movies. "It was survival training. 'A
Clockwork Orange,' which I saw several times before I was 10, taught me
more about not opening my door to strangers than a hundred
school-assembly lectures" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/psychotronic-childhood
[12]The Great Gatsby And The American Dream
Links:
12. http://b.rw/KqBboA
Sarah Churchwell | Guardian | 25 May 2012
"The phrase the American dream was invented to describe a failure, not
a promise: Or rather, a broken promise, a dream that was continually
faltering beneath rampant monopoly capitalism." Fitzgerald, like few
others, saw it coming [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-gatsby-and-american-dream-0
[14]Why We Lie
Links:
14. http://b.rw/Kqv836
Dan Ariely | WSJ | 25 May 2012
"We tend to think that people are either honest or dishonest. But that
is not how dishonesty works." In a series of experiments, Ariely
discovers how, why, and by how much people cheat. The answers may
surprise (h/t Daniel Lippman) [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-we-lie-0
[16]The Beach Boys’ Crazy Summer
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MSAdF4
Andrew Romano | Newsweek | 27 May 2012
Assessment of broken pop icon Brian Wilson. Decades of LSD and cocaine
abuse, coupled with "weapons-grade antipsychotics" hurried his descent
to voice-hearing manic depressive. Can a Beach Boys reunion tour help
to mend him? [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/beach-boys’-crazy-summer
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Lee Camp on Political Satire
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lee-camp-on-political-satire
Humour can be better than mainstream media at speaking truth to power,
says the American comedian and activist. He discusses masters of the
art, from Jon Stewart to Joseph Heller [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lee-camp-on-political-satire
Featured Special Report
[20]Consciousness
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
What is it? Where did it come from? How can we learn more about it?
Here's a quick look at what we do and don't know about consciousness
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/consciousness
Reader Recommendations
@[22]lewis_baston RT @[23]prospect_uk: If the EU ignores Hungary's
assault on democracy, then what is it
for?[24]t.co/o42UPiu4 #[25]NewProspect [26]#browsings [27]More like
this
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22. http://twitter.com/lewis_baston
23. http://twitter.com/prospect_uk
24. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/euro-crisis/threat-hungary-governments-european-union
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#NewProspect
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/luzhin-defense-by-vladimir-nabokov
[29]The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/luzhin-defense-by-vladimir-nabokov
[30]Dominic Lawson says: “ The Luzhin Defense is far and away the best
novel written about chess players. It deals with chess and madness,
which is an intriguing topic”[31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]From Love To Bingo
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/love-bingo
Best short film of the year so far, entirely made from Getty Images
stock photos [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Paul Fussell, on disillusion
Links:
34. http://harpers.org/sponsor/thewar/wwiiharpers/my-war-how-i-got-irony-in-the-infantry/index.html
"To become disillusioned you must earlier have been illusioned"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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