Newsletter 731
[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]The Transformation Of The Arab World
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NM3jVR
Olivier Roy | Journal Of Democracy | 13 July 2012
After the Arab Spring. Democratisation is now becoming rooted in Arab
societies, and Islamist groups that benefited at the ballot box will
adapt to this or face marginalisation. This is the start of the
"post-Islamist" era (PDF) [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/transformation-arab-world
[8]Confessions Of An Ex-Mormon
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Sz7Agg
Walter Kirn | New Republic | 13 July 2012
"Sometimes a person doesn’t know what he’s made of until strangers try
to tear it down." Kirn reflects on life in the Mormon church,
"America’s most misunderstood religion" and its "longest experiment
with communitarian idealism" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/confessions-ex-mormon
[10]Mind Bending: Why Our Memories Are Not Always Our Own
Links:
10. http://b.rw/SzePor
Charles Fernyhough | Independent | 15 July 2012
Fascinating look at disputed and false memories. How is it that you can
start to believe someone else's memory is your own? And why is it so
straightforward to give people memories of events they never actually
experienced? [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mind-bending-why-our-memories-are-not-always-our-own
[12]Dark Soldiers Of The New Order
Links:
12. http://b.rw/Nq3AOp
Edward Lucas | Foreign Policy | 14 July 2012
Book extract. The Cold War is over, but the spirit of the KGB lives on.
"Russia's new spies engage in the subversion, manipulation and
penetration of the West. They defend a regime that is tyrannical,
criminal and even murderous" [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dark-soldiers-new-order
[14]The Golden Rules Of Banking
Links:
14. http://b.rw/NGRYWS
Buttonwood | Economist | 13 July 2012
"Managers get promoted to their level of incompetence. The
trader-cum-executive will make the biggest mistake when he is in charge
of the whole bank. By this stage, he will be rich and will remain so
even if the entire bank fails" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/golden-rules-banking
[16]Born Poor? Bad Luck
Links:
16. http://b.rw/SueeEE
Will Hutton | Observer | 15 July 2012
"Protracted depression is making life ever harder and disillusioning
for those, and their children, trapped at the bottom—while making those
at the top ever more robust about looking after themselves and their
own" [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/born-poor-bad-luck
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Sophie Ratcliffe on PG Wodehouse
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sophie-ratcliffe-on-pg-wodehouse
A prolific writer sometimes oblivious to events going on around him, PG
Wodehouse remains so well loved because of his enduring characters and
inimitable style, says the editor of his letters [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/sophie-ratcliffe-on-pg-wodehouse
Featured Special Report
[20]How To Die
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
How to face the end? Peacefully? Still fighting? With all of medicine's
help? Or naturally? [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/how-die
Reader Recommendations
@polit2k MT @markmackinnon... absolutely tantalizing stuff in
instalment 1 of Asahi Shimbun's series on ... Bo Xilai
[22]t.co/rpLPp2IU [23]#browsings [24]More like this
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22. http://t.co/rpLPp2IU
23. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/born-losers-by-scott-sandage
[26]Born Losers by Scott Sandage
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/born-losers-by-scott-sandage
[27]Oliver Burkeman says: “This is an historical account of changing
attitudes towards failure. He takes American culture as his focus, but
his insights apply far beyond that” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Transforming Tomorrow
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/transforming-tomorrow
Peter Thiel will pay you to change the world. One condition: You have
to drop out of college [30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Jonathan Good, on photographs
Links:
31. http://1000memories.com/blog/94-number-of-photos-ever-taken-digital-and-analog-in-shoebox
"Ten percent of all photos ever taken were taken in the past 12
months"
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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