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
    Links:
      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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