Newsletter 767
[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]Guns 'R Us
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6. http://b.rw/SgH0JF
Jeanne Marie Laskas | GQ | 21 August 2012
Buying guns in America. In Yuma, Arizona, there are family nights at
the shooting range, ladies' nights, birthday parties. It's the liberals
who are stupid and scary. And assault rifles make great gifts for
six-year-olds [7]Comments
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7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guns-r-us
[8]The Reality Of Trying To Shrink Government
Links:
8. http://b.rw/SgJOGS
Lawrence Summers | Washington Post | 19 August 2012
"There's a widespread view in both parties that it is feasible and
desirable that in the future the federal government should be no larger
as a share of the overall economy than it has been historically." But
that's wishful thinking [9]Comments
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9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reality-trying-shrink-government
[10]Advice For Soldiers In Vietnam
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10. http://b.rw/NCseOk
Jonathan Mirsky | NYRB | 20 August 2012
Guidebook for American soldiers sent to Vietnam in the 1960s was
charming, naive, mendacious. Discussed culture, history. Explained how
US was helping brave locals resist foreign-sponsored terrorism. Just as
in Afghanistan [11]Comments
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11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/advice-soldiers-vietnam
[12]The Real Conservative Opportunity This November
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12. http://b.rw/PMN3q5
Simon Johnson | Bloomberg | 19 August 2012
Pick a popular target: Big banks. "True conservatives should all want
the megabanks to break up, becoming small enough and simple enough so
they can fail – without any kind of government or central-bank bailout"
[13]Comments
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13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/real-conservative-opportunity-november
[14]Paul Auster: 'I Think Of The Right-Wing Republicans As Jihadists'
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OBYISW
David Daley | Salon | 19 August 2012
You can see why Salon pulled that quote for the headline, but there's a
lot more to this interview than that. Takes a little while to warm up
but the remarks on growing up, growing old, and the job of writers is
splendid stuff [15]Comments
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15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/paul-auster-i-think-right-wing-republicans-jihadists
[16]Punishing Cheaters Promotes The Evolution Of Cooperation
Links:
16. http://b.rw/SxMDjY
Eric Michael Johnson | Primate Diaries | 16 August 2012
"For decades the idea that cheaters may in fact prosper has been the
greatest difficulty in understanding cooperation as an evolved trait."
Here's how thinking about coordinated punishment could help.
Interesting throughout [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/punishing-cheaters-promotes-evolution-cooperation
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Robert Barro on The Lessons of the Great Depression
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18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-barro-on-lessons-great-depression
The Harvard Professor takes issue with some common assumptions about
the Great Depression, and how America got out of it. And he doesn't
mince his words about the recent past, calling President Obama's
stimulus "stupid" and "awful" [19]Read on
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19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-barro-on-lessons-great-depression
Featured Special Report
[20]American Prisons
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
An epidemic of incarceration. A prison system that provides neither
retributive justice nor rehabilitation. Is this America's moral
catastrophe? [21]Read on
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21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
Reader Recommendations
@[22]rszbt Learn about LEWD: MT @[23]JohnOSullivanNR: Diplomat-blogger
@[24]CharlesCrawford explains Assange row.[25]t.co/653TCz42
[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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22. http://twitter.com/rszbt
23. http://twitter.com/JohnOSullivanNR
24. http://twitter.com/CharlesCrawford
25. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/charlescrawford/100177250/julian-assange-and-ecuador-where-we-slipped-up
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/making-movies-by-sidney-lumet
[29]Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/making-movies-by-sidney-lumet
[30]Darren Aronofsky says: "This is an incredibly clear, honest, and
precise discussion of the films Lumet made over the course of his
career. There are many pearls of wisdom about directing and filmmaking
in the book." [31]FiveBooks Archive
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30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/darren-aronofsky-on-making-movies
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[32]How Big Is Infinity?
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/how-big-infinity
Animated talk. Maths PhD comes in useful around 2'56" [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[34]Milan Kundera, on France
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34. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2977/the-art-of-fiction-no-81-milan-kundera
"In France, ideas are preferred to works"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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