Newsletter 685
[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]The 1 Percent’s Problem
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6. http://b.rw/LJEGnX
Joseph Stiglitz | Vanity Fair | 31 May 2012
"There are good reasons why plutocrats should care about inequality —
even if they’re thinking only about themselves. The rich do not exist
in a vacuum. They need a functioning society around them to sustain
their position" [7]Comments
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7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/1-percent’s-problem
[8]Terrorists? Us?
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8. http://b.rw/L24ws9
Owen Bennett-Jones | London Review Of Books | 29 May 2012
Who are the MEK? Iran's leaders in waiting? A cult? Terrorists? They
have some high-powered US lobbyists on their side and friends in high
places. Is Hillary Clinton about to take them off the US's official
terrorist list? [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/terrorists-us
[10]Could Picasso Draw Better Than Raphael?
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10. http://b.rw/LTKqiq
Catesby Leigh | Standpoint | 30 May 2012
Picasso reportedly said: "They say that I can draw better than Raphael.
And they're probably right." Indeed many think of him as an Old Master
manqué, who learned the draughtsman's skills in traditional fashion.
But is this correct? [11]Comments
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11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/could-picasso-draw-better-raphael
[12]What Fearmongers Get Wrong About Cyberwarfare
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LfrE2F
Evgeny Morozov | Slate | 28 May 2012
"Instead of basing cyber policy on outlandish scenarios from
second-rate films, we have to remember that those who would deploy
cyberweapons have real agendas and interests—and would have to pay real
costs if something goes awry" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-fearmongers-get-wrong-about-cyberwarfare
[14]Imprisoned In America
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14. http://b.rw/L2dFRv
David Garland | TLS | 30 May 2012
Review of The Collapse Of American Criminal Justice by Republican
lawyer William Stuntz. "His viewpoint is refreshingly unpredictable and
runs against the grain of conventional wisdom. It is a devastatingly
critical account" [15]Comments
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15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/imprisoned-america
[16]The Vietnam Solution
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16. http://b.rw/Konnws
Robert Kaplan | Atlantic | 25 May 2012
Vietnam could be a vital ally for America in balancing China's rise, if
only America could get past its memories of the war, as Vietnam has
done. Most Vietnamese were born after the "American war" ended. And
besides, they won [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/vietnam-solution
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Anne-Marie Slaughter on 21st Century Foreign Policy
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-marie-slaughter-on-21st-century-foreign-policy
The US State Department now spends less than half of its effort on its
traditional role of managing state-to-state relations. A former senior
official tells us what it’s doing instead [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/anne-marie-slaughter-on-21st-century-foreign-policy
Featured Special Report
[20]London and the Olympics
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it.
Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/london-and-olympics
Reader Recommendations
[22]whitebluewhite new sources of energy - are they, in fact, viable?
#[23]browsings David MacKay: A reality check on
renewables [24]t.co/cnoj1NsO [25]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/whitebluewhite
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://t.co/cnoj1NsO
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/king-george-v-by-kenneth-rose
[27]King George V by Kenneth Rose
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/king-george-v-by-kenneth-rose
[28]Hugo Vickers says: I remember someone saying about his book that
there was not a dull word about an essentially very dull monarch, which
is a great achievement.[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hugo-vickers-on-royal-biographies
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Color Harmony
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30. https://thebrowser.com/videos/color-harmony
How colour vision works. An animated short film, made in 1938
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Ophelia Benson, on tolerance
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32. http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2010/the-freeedom-not-to-respect
We have to respect everyone’s right to hold irrational beliefs, but
we do not have to respect the irrational beliefs themselves
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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