Newsletter 757
[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 Merkel Memorandum
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6. http://b.rw/OW1OW3
Anonymous | Economist | 10 August 2012
Imagine a secret memorandum drafted by Merkel's advisers with a Plan B
for eurozone. One that contemplates the effects of a Greek exit, even
ramifications of a wider disbanding of currency in S Europe. Here's
what it might look like [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/merkel-memorandum
[8]Will The 'Jesus Christ Of Politics' Rise Again?
Links:
8. http://b.rw/OW36QQ
Hans-Jürgen Schlamp | Spiegel | 9 August 2012
It might seem wholly incredible to anyone outside Italy, but Silvio
Berlusconi the "macho clown" of Italian politics could be on course for
a comeback. "I'm climbing back into the ring. Without me, they will
sink" [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/will-jesus-christ-politics-rise-again
[10]The Reaches Of Stringency
Links:
10. http://b.rw/P5dTHV
Michael Wood | Nation | 7 August 2012
On the new Complete Poems of Philip Larkin. His best work "concerns
something like the unpronounceable loss of what we were never going to
have, or a complicated refusal of what was not quite on offer"
[11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/reaches-stringency
[12]Cruel Summer
Links:
12. http://b.rw/MBrfHR
Marc Lynch | Foreign Policy | 8 August 2012
This summer has not been kind to the Arab uprisings, says Marc Lynch in
this excellent sit-rep. But missteps were inevitable. This is only the
beginning of a generational change in Arab politics. Take the long view
[13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/cruel-summer
[14]The Ancient Roots Of Iran's Wrestling And Weightlifting Olympic Dominance
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OPbL4X
Max Fisher | Atlantic | 9 August 2012
Centuries before the Islamic Republic or even Islam, Persian athletes
fused spirituality and strength training in a practice called
Varzesh-e-Bastani. Its legacy may still persist in Iran's success in
wrestling and weightlifting [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/ancient-roots-irans-wrestling-and-weightlifting-olympic-dominance
[16]Everything Is Fiction
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MY7Hz3
Keith Ridgway | New Yorker | 8 August 2012
Charming short blogpost on writing, and the wonder of fiction. "Fiction
gives us everything. It gives us our memories, our understanding, our
insight, our lives. We use it to invent ourselves and others"
[17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/everything-fiction
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Carol Gilligan on Gender and Human Nature
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-gilligan-on-gender-and-human-nature
The idea that girls are emotional and “boys don’t cry” is ridiculous,
says the feminist and psychologist. She tells us about books that
debunk the gender myths constricting our lives [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/carol-gilligan-on-gender-and-human-nature
Featured Special Report
[20]Christopher Hitchens
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Remembering the superlative essayist, polemicist and debater [21]Read
on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/christopher-hitchens-0
Reader Recommendations
@[22]nuzav The Singular Sound of Sonny Rollins by Christopher Carroll |
NYRblog | The New York Review of Books [23]t.co/zxxhjLJA
#[24]browsings [25]More like this
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25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/human-stain-by-philip-roth
[27]The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/human-stain-by-philip-roth
[28]Claire Fox says: “This novel shows how doing things in the name of
tolerance can lead to a right old mess”[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/claire-fox-on-freedom-speech
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Famous Last Words
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30. https://thebrowser.com/videos/famous-last-words
29 things you never want to be caught saying [31]More videos
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31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Juan Cole, on reporting terrorism
Links:
32. http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-differences-between-white-terrorists-and-others.html
"White terrorists are 'troubled loners'. Other terrorists are always
suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are
obviously troubled loners"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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