Newsletter 734
[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]Wanna Be Veep? Okay, But This Is Going To Hurt
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6. http://b.rw/QaPlz2
Jason Zengerle | GQ | 18 July 2012
After Palin, never again. Aspiring president can't risk having VP
candidate blow up on him. Hopefuls get top-to-tail vetting. "It's
totally invasive. It's like having a colonoscopy, except they use the
Hubble telescope on you" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/wanna-be-veep-okay-going-hurt
[8]Bloomberg Can Still Run Washington
Links:
8. http://b.rw/Q79PKu
Jack Shafer | Reuters | 18 July 2012
New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, 70, has one year left in office, maybe
13 years left on earth. He's made his billions. He's not going for the
White House. What's left? Rescuing the Washington Post would be a
service to the country [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/bloomberg-can-still-run-washington
[10]Why Elitism Will Bring Britain Olympic Joy
Links:
10. http://b.rw/Ly4sRy
John Kay | John Kay/FT | 18 July 2012
If you want to be a sporting nation, choose your sport, invest your
money, and lead the world. Russia did it in chess. Britain is doing it
in cycling. Far more cost-effective than staging prestige events such
as the Olympics [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/why-elitism-will-bring-britain-olympic-joy
[12]The Truth About Human Nature
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MJYFEz
Lee Perlman | New Atlantis | 18 July 2012
Terrific appraisal of Gulliver's Travels . "The enemy of human
authenticity and flourishing is pride, the pinnacle of which is the
denial of the lies inherent in our nature." Is this the target of
Swift's satire? [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/truth-about-human-nature
[14]Winston Churchill, Author Of Victory
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OkiEgb
Geoffrey Wheatcroft | TLS | 18 July 2012
On Churchill's other career as a writer, which made him lots of money
thanks to his skills in evading taxes and outwitting publishers.
"Factory system" of ghostwriters and researchers wrote his histories,
won him a Nobel prize [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/winston-churchill-author-victory
[16]Hiking The Grand Canyon In A Day
Links:
16. http://b.rw/OkvVoU
John Ore | The Awl | 13 July 2012
Well-told tale of ill-judged college expedition. Most of us have been
there. By which we mean not the Grand Canyon, but setting off somewhere
with little more than a sweatshirt and a youthful assumption that
everything will be ok [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/hiking-grand-canyon-day
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Thomas Frieden on Public Health
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/thomas-frieden-on-public-health
The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes
us inside the world of fighting epidemics, eradicating disease and
confronting the preventable damage we do to ourselves [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/thomas-frieden-on-public-health
Featured Special Report
[20]Democracy
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Are Western states true democracies? Has democracy become a casualty of
the financial crisis? Can you have too much democracy? Read on to find
out [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/democracy
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k Coppola Comment: The shoebox
swindle [23]t.co/QMQTSq7y #[24]browsings
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://t.co/QMQTSq7y
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[25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/letters-stoic-by-seneca-younger
[27]Letters From a Stoic by Seneca the Younger
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/letters-stoic-by-seneca-younger
[28]Oliver Burkeman says: “I personally take from Seneca and the other
Stoics a very interesting attitude towards negative emotions and
situations” [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oliver-burkeman-on-happiness-through-negative-thinking
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Amazon Yesterday Shipping
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30. https://thebrowser.com/videos/amazon-yesterday-shipping
"Click checkout, and you will already have had the product for a day"
[31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Leonard Michaels, on men
Links:
32. http://twitter.com/parisreview/status/225603120707801088
"In my experience, a man having great fun is probably about to get
divorced"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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