Newsletter 689
[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]Remarks At The Festival Of Economics, Trento Italy
Links:
6. http://b.rw/KCKoMc
George Soros | George Soros | 2 June 2012
Compelling read on failures of economic theory, and eurozone crisis.
Soros believes the euro will survive because a break-up would hurt
Germany as much as others. However, he says Berlin has only three
months in which to act [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/remarks-festival-economics-trento-italy
[8]Why War Is Marching On The Road To Damascus
Links:
8. http://b.rw/M0rMC6
Patrick Cockburn | Independent | 3 June 2012
"I spent the last week in Damascus and the atmosphere reminds me of
Beirut in 1975 at the start of the 15-year civil war. Again and again,
people realistically laid out for me the nasty things that are all too
likely to happen" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-war-marching-road-damascus
[10]Martin Amis: A New Chapter In America
Links:
10. http://b.rw/M0nLl8
Tom Lamont | Observer | 3 June 2012
At home with the author in New York to discuss his latest novel,
"Lionel Asbo". Subtitled "State of England", though Amis insists it's
no "V-sign" to the country he left. "Writing is a much more amorous
business than people think" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/martin-amis-new-chapter-america
[12]Mrs Windsor, Anyone?
Links:
12. http://b.rw/M0AvUM
Matthew Engel | FT | 2 June 2012
"The mystery of British republicanism has long been its almost total
non-existence." With the Queen enjoying her diamond jubilee, Engel goes
in search of those who'd like to see the monarchy consigned to history
[13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mrs-windsor-anyone
[14]The North West London Blues
Links:
14. http://b.rw/M0p1on
Zadie Smith | NYRB | 2 June 2012
In favour of libraries. "Well-run libraries are filled with people
because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: An
indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order
to stay" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/north-west-london-blues
[16]Olympic Icons
Links:
16. http://b.rw/M0E65f
Mike Marqusee | Mike Marqusee | 2 June 2012
"Iconic" is an overused word but surely applies to the image of Tommie
Smith and John Carlos on the podium at the 1968 Olympics. Marqusee
considers the power, meaning and price of their statement, and what the
Olympics have become [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/olympic-icons
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Nigel Warburton on Introductions to Philosophy
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nigel-warburton-on-introductions-philosophy
How should we live? What is the nature of reality? Should pro golfers
be allowed to use carts? The philosophy lecturer sets us off down the
road of philosophical enquiry with an intriguing reading list [19]Read
on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nigel-warburton-on-introductions-philosophy
Featured Special Report
[20]Drone Warfare
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Should we worry about war conducted by remote control? Are there
ethical considerations? Will we become accustomed to unmanned warfare
in the future? What if a hacker took control of an army? It's all here
[21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/drone-warfare
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Facebook's Long-Term Problem | James Kwak | The Baseline
Scenario [23]t.co/9qAi6bEq via @[24]JamesYKwak [25]#browsings [26]More
like this
Links:
22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://baselinescenario.com/2012/06/04/facebooks-long-term-problem
24. http://twitter.com/JamesYKwak
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/infinite-variety-music-by-leonard-bernstein
[28]The Infinite Variety of Music by Leonard Bernstein
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/infinite-variety-music-by-leonard-bernstein
[29]Alex Ross says: “Bernstein was a genius. As I got older, these
essays became the foundation of how I think and talk about
music”[30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alex-ross-on-writing-about-music
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Parler Le Fracas
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/parler-le-fracas
Try this with the sound down, unless you have a taste for violent
hip-hop, in French [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]James McWilliams, on killing animals
Links:
33. http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/12/why-free-range-meat-isnt-much-better-than-factory-farmed/67569
The confined animal lives a life of brutality and is dispatched; the
free-range animal lives a life of relative freedom and is
dispatched. From the perspective of happiness lost, the latter
scenario is more tragic
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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