Newsletter 730
[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]How Should Liberal Democracies Deal With China And Russia?
Links:
6. http://b.rw/LNOPGR
Michael Ignatieff | Reuters | 12 July 2012
"Nothing is gained by pretending that Russia and China are not the
chief strategic threat to the moral and political commitments of
liberal democracies." If not enemies, they are opponents. Let's not get
too cosy with them [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-should-liberal-democracies-deal-china-and-russia
[8]The Limits Of Feeling
Links:
8. http://b.rw/LNQXP6
Ruth Franklin | New Republic | 12 July 2012
On the writings and posthumous fame of WG Sebald, who died in 2001
leaving four published works. "Part memoir, part travelogue, part
biography, and part dream, they seemed to exist in an uncategorizable
space beyond genre" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/limits-feeling
[10]Catch Me If You Can
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NqNZ00
Dean King | Outside | 12 July 2012
Robert Wood was not like other eight-year-olds; he was autistic and
non-verbal. When he ran off into a deep forest in Virginia, the largest
manhunt in state history began. But for Robert would this seem like a
game of hide and seek? [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/catch-me-if-you-can
[12]The New Global Economy’s (Relative) Winners
Links:
12. http://b.rw/PPe0Jn
Dani Rodrik | Project Syndicate | 11 July 2012
Forget America and Europe. Probably China too. New winners will be
countries with manageable levels of public debt, large domestic
markets, prosperous middle classes, and ideally democracies. Think
India, South Korea, Brazil [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/new-global-economy’s-relative-winners
[14]Wrong Way Down The Danube
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MkY38i
James Kirchick | Foreign Affairs | 10 July 2012
Hungary dismantles democracy. Will the European Union intervene, or
will it let its own values slide? "The fate of the country over the
next several years will test the foundational principles of the entire
European project" [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/wrong-way-down-danube
[16]The Chickens And The Bulls
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OzzEw7
William McGowan | Slate | 11 July 2012
On the rise and incredible fall of a vicious extortion ring that preyed
on prominent gay men in the 1960s. Impersonated vice cops to extort
sometimes huge sums from politicians, professors, generals and TV and
film stars [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/chickens-and-bulls
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Tim Parks on Italian Fiction
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction
The author, who’s lived in Italy for 30 years, takes us off the beaten
track through humour, satire and social history to recommend five
richly rewarding works of Italian fiction [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-parks-on-italian-fiction
Featured Special Report
[20]Moral Philosophy
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/moral-philosophy
Can we have morality without God? Does surveillance make us better? Do
babies have morals? Get to grips with some big questions of right and
wrong [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/moral-philosophy
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k The Weaponization of Economic Theory | Michael Hudson
t.co/FiiIuKhd #gfc2 #browsings h/t @npthinking [22]More like this
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22. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[23]Book of the Day
Links:
23. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/west-indies-and-spanish-main-by-anthony-trollope
[24]The West Indies and the Spanish Main by Anthony Trollope
Links:
24. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/west-indies-and-spanish-main-by-anthony-trollope
[25]Paul Theroux says: “It is a vivid portrait of a lot of different
places – Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, Nicaragua – and he had a great
ability to describe people”[26]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paul-theroux-on-travelling
26. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[27]On The Brink
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/videos/brink
Conserving the Maasai Mara
[28]More videos
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[29]Russell Banks, on coincidence
Links:
29. http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction/lobster-night-0300
"The only people who say lightning never strikes twice have never
been struck once"
[30]More quotes
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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