Newsletter 764
[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]Chongqing And Bo Xilai: How China Works
Links:
6. http://b.rw/NIoLd7
Kerry Brown | Open Democracy | 17 August 2012
"This is a system predicated on unaccountable power, where at the heart
of governance a few individuals engage in coalition-building and mutual
support to advance each other’s interests without input from public
opinion" [7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/chongqing-and-bo-xilai-how-china-works
[8]What Mr Draghi Should Be Aiming At
Links:
8. http://b.rw/NNfVJA
Yanis Varoufakis | Yanis Varoufakis | 17 August 2012
ECB under Mario Draghi is enforcing disastrous "Ponzi austerity" on
eurozone periphery. There is a way out. The catch is that it involves
an irreversible move. Will those with the bargaining power now be
prepared to give it up? [9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/what-mr-draghi-should-be-aiming
[10]Roman Frontiers
Links:
10. http://b.rw/NIqbEJ
Andrew Curry | National Geographic | 16 August 2012
How did Rome's obsession with borders contribute to its downfall?
"Think of the empire as a cell, and barbarian armies as viruses: Once
the empire’s thin outer membrane was breached, invaders had free rein
to pillage the interior" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/roman-frontiers
[12]Imran Khan Must Be Doing Something Right
Links:
12. http://b.rw/R6gpiC
Pankaj Mishra | NYT | 16 August 2012
Visiting former cricketer, turned politician. "For many in this new
generation of Pakistanis, there is little choice between the untried
and evidently incorruptible Khan and such repeatedly discredited
leaders as Zardari and Sharif" [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/imran-khan-must-be-doing-something-right
[14]Invisible Threats
Links:
14. http://b.rw/S0amvI
Gabriella Blum | Hoover Institution | 16 August 2012
What do you get when robotics and nanotechnology meet 3D printing? A
world full of home-made weaponised and surveillance drones the size of
insects. Tech is basically there. Just a question of when it gets cheap
and popular (PDF) [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/invisible-threats
[16]Rereading 'The Remains Of The Day'
Links:
16. http://b.rw/S2jeRA
Salman Rushdie | Guardian | 17 August 2012
On the classic novel. "It is the rare achievement of Ishiguro's novel
to pose big questions – what is Englishness? What is greatness? What is
dignity? – with a delicacy and humour that do not obscure the
tough-mindedness beneath" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/rereading-remains-day
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Edward Lucas on Putin and Russian History
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
The international editor of The Economist and author of a new book
about Russia gives an excoriating critique of Putinism and explains how
Russia's amoral present is rooted in a failure to come to terms with
its past [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/edward-lucas-on-putin-and-russian-history
Featured Special Report
[20]Paul Ryan
Links:
20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
He's the man with the (budget) plan. What will the selection of the
Wisconsin congressman as vice presidential candidate do for the Romney
campaign? [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/paul-ryan
Reader Recommendations
[22]polit2k The Catholic church in America: Earthly concerns | The
Economist [23]t.co/y1eh6ipJ #[24]browsings h/t @[25]felixsalmon
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26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/catch-22-by-joseph-heller
[28]Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Links:
28. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/catch-22-by-joseph-heller
[29]Charles Glass says: "Catch 22 has every character in it that the
American military did have at the time and still has today in Iraq and
Afghanistan: The money-makers, the crooks, the officers who were trying
to claw their way to the top where they get their men killed, the
placing in order of priority the pretence of military success at the
cost of many civilian lives" [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-glass-on-americans-abroad
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Team Spirit
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/videos/team-spirit
Funerals for sports fans. Short film by Errol Morris [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Tony Judt, on New York
Links:
33. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/opinion/08judt.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all
New York sits at the edge: like Istanbul or Mumbai, it has a
distinctive appeal that lies precisely in its cantankerous
relationship to the metropolitan territory beyond.
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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