Newsletter 688
[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]Austerity And Debt Realism
Links:
6. http://b.rw/MkVY10
Kenneth Rogoff | Project Syndicate | 1 June 2012
What should governments be doing with regard to deficits, debt?
Simplistic Keynesians say ignore deficits, it's a recession. But
debt-ceiling absolutists want budgets balanced now. Both positions are
"dangerously facile". Here's why [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/austerity-and-debt-realism
[8]Dangers Ahead For Egypt
Links:
8. http://b.rw/JRaBsl
Nathan Brown | National Interest | 31 May 2012
Egyptian voters must now choose between two presidential candidates,
both of whom are fairly widely detested. It'll be an unpleasant,
negative campaign. "And more deeply, a very nasty kind of sectarianism
has already emerged" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/dangers-ahead-egypt
[10]Squeezing Out The Doctor
Links:
10. http://b.rw/LU2u8H
Anonymous | Economist | 2 June 2012
Past century has been a great time for doctors. Treat patients case by
case, and somebody pays. That's over. We can't afford it. Set
procedures are just as effective, certainly for chronic conditions, as
individual therapy [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/squeezing-out-doctor
[12]Real Cool
Links:
12. http://b.rw/JRc2ab
Martin Filler | NYRB | 1 June 2012
Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol assessed and compared. Superficially
alike perhaps, so much so that Warhol faced early rejection. But
although the source material was similar, they did very different
things with it [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/real-cool
[14]Close Encounters Of The Cancer Kind
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MkT6l1
Jeff Mason | Talking Philosophy | 2 June 2012
Plato famously stated that “Philosophy is a preparation for death.” But
is it? Academic philosopher, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung
cancer, questions whether 40 years of study can help him cope with
death [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/close-encounters-cancer-kind
[16]Forget The Hype: How Close Are We To A ‘Forgetting Pill’?
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LZs0gf
Jon Simons | Brain, n. | 30 May 2012
Simons suspects not as close as recent reports have made out. So he
invites Dr Amy Milton, of Cambridge University, to comment. Her expert
analysis suggests the answer depends on what exactly we are trying to
forget [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/forget-hype-how-close-are-we-‘forgetting-pill’
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Robert Lacey on the Queen
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lacey-on-queen
The royal biographer Robert Lacey considers Queen Elizabeth II in her
diamond jubilee year, her legacy, her family history, and her
ambivalent relationship with Princess Diana [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-lacey-on-queen
Featured Special Report
[20]American Prisons
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
An epidemic of incarceration. A prison system that provides neither
retributive justice nor rehabilitation. Is this America's moral
catastrophe? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k George Soros on the political bubble of the European
Union [23]t.co/8jO83jWY via @[24]theanalyst_hk
#[25]eurocrisis #[26]browsings
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://t.co/8jO83jWY
24. http://twitter.com/theanalyst_hk
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
[27]More like this
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27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/letters-young-contrarian-by-christopher-hitchens
[29]Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Links:
29. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/letters-young-contrarian-by-christopher-hitchens
[30]Guy Raz says: “This is a wonderful book about the transformative
power of argument and it deserves to be a classic” [31]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/guy-raz-on-essential-reading-reporters
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]Rep Mike Bolst Is Furious
Links:
32. https://thebrowser.com/videos/rep-mike-bolst-furious
Proceedings of the State House of Representatives in Springfield,
Illinois. Tuesday, May 29th 2012 [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Bryan Caplan, on policy
Links:
34. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/04/top_40_things_i.html
"Before you study public opinion, you wonder why policy isn't far
better. After you study public opinion, you wonder why policy isn't
far worse"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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