Newsletter 714
[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]The Rise Of Innovative State Capitalism
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6. http://b.rw/Mbxrv3
Joshua Kurlantzick | Business Week | 28 June 2012
"Across much of the developing world, state capitalism—in which the
state owns companies or plays a major role in supporting or directing
them—is replacing the free market". It may not be efficient, but it's
certainly effective [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rise-innovative-state-capitalism
[8]Your E-Book Is Reading You
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LUhMLN
Alexandra Alter | WSJ | 28 June 2012
What happens when people sit down with a book? Do they read the
introduction? How often do they reach the end? What do they read next?
Publishers never knew. Now with e-books, there's data at last. But how
should it be used? [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/your-e-book-reading-you
[10]Israel's New Politics And The Fate Of Palestine
Links:
10. http://b.rw/MZQ1Ve
Akiva Eldar | National Interest | 28 June 2012
Israeli writer weighs 20 years of attempts to make, or stymie, peace.
"History teaches us that Israelis are only willing to take brave and
honest steps toward peace when they know the cost of failing to do so
will be even greater" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/israels-new-politics-and-fate-palestine
[12]A Skeptic Looks At Alternative Energy
Links:
12. http://b.rw/LRzzU0
Vaclav Smil | IEEE Spectrum | 27 June 2012
Fossil fuels will supply our energy for generations to come. Even with
government subsidies, alternatives—solar, wind, biomass—have puny
market share. And what of the infrastructure needed to transmit, store,
deliver their power? [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/skeptic-looks-alternative-energy
[14]What Would Rousseau Make Of Our Selfish Age?
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MCNZLg
Terry Eagleton | Guardian | 27 June 2012
"Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that
Rousseau would have recognised. They have become instruments of
capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, he would have felt sick
and oppressed" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-would-rousseau-make-our-selfish-age
[16]Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2011
Links:
16. http://b.rw/LfEeQ1
Anonymous | Wikimedia | 25 June 2012
Top 25 photos, as voted for by Wikimedia users. Winning entry is
outstanding, but other gems include: Snow-covered ski lift in Sweden,
Eilean Donan Castle at sunrise, and the Atacama Dry lake (click on
images for larger version) [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wikimedia-commons-picture-year-2011
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Eric Berkowitz on Sex and Society
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-berkowitz-on-sex-and-society
For thousands of years, human societies have tried to regulate sexual
activity. The author of Sex and Punishment tells us why this should be
so, and how what’s permissible has varied according to time and place
[19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eric-berkowitz-on-sex-and-society
Featured Special Report
[20]Healthcare in America
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's
what's at stake [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/healthcare-america
Reader Recommendations
@c_crampton This has to be one for #browsings - beautiful new short
story by John Burnside in the NS [22]t.co/AT3L8R8w[23]More like this
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22. http://t.co/AT3L8R8w
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
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24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mass-psychology-fascism-by-wilhelm-reich
[25]The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mass-psychology-fascism-by-wilhelm-reich
[26]Daniel Pick says: A key suggestion is that sexuality and politics
could be bound together in complex ways, and that a huge amount of
libido was directed into fascism [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/mass-psychology-fascism-by-wilhelm-reich
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Breaking Story
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/breaking-story
If you didn't know it was from The Onion, you'd be a full minute in
before you twigged [29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]John Banville, on fiction
Links:
30. http://totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/arts-culture-features/john-banville-interviewed
"Fiction is an X-ray of the self, whereas travel writing and memoir
are both marvelous masks"
[31]More quotes
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31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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