Newsletter 781
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[6]The Legal Mythology Of The Extradition Of Julian Assange
Links:
6. http://b.rw/O8e0Vz
David Allen Green | New Statesman | 3 September 2012
Forensic dismantling of arguments used by Assange's supporters. "The
Swedish government simply cannot give any prior guarantee in respect of
an extradition request which has not even been made. It is a legal
impossibility" [7]Comments
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/articles/legal-mythology-extradition-julian-assange
[8]I Often Have To Cut Into The Brain
Links:
8. http://b.rw/TTSuAK
Henry Marsh | Granta | 3 September 2012
Surgeon describes operation on pineal gland. "The idea that I am
cutting through thought itself, that memories, dreams and reflections
should have the consistency of soft white jelly, is simply too strange
to understand" [9]Comments
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-often-have-cut-brain
[10]Mitt Romney's Fair Share
Links:
10. http://b.rw/OSPbKa
Joseph Stiglitz | Project Syndicate | 3 September 2012
On the importance of paying taxes. "If presidents and those around them
do not pay their fair share of taxes, how can we expect that anyone
else will? And if no one does, how can we expect to finance the public
goods that we need?" [11]Comments
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mitt-romneys-fair-share
[12]The Gangster Princess Of Beverly Hills
Links:
12. http://b.rw/O8gjYS
Sabrina Rubin Erdely | Rolling Stone | 31 August 2012
She claimed to be a model, a pop star, even heiress to the Samsung
fortune. She lived in LA and called herself the Korean Paris Hilton.
But then the DEA caught her out. This is the bizarre story of drug
trafficker Lisette Lee [13]Comments
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/articles/gangster-princess-beverly-hills
[14]How To Read Žižek
Links:
14. http://b.rw/OPKN0d
Adam Kotsko | LA Review Of Books | 2 September 2012
"He is one of the most engaging and thought-provoking writers working
in philosophy today, with a unique ability to get people excited about
philosophy and critical theory. He is, in short, a gateway drug, and
I’m the pusher" [15]Comments
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-read-žižek
[16]The Thin Line Between Guilt And Innocence
Links:
16. http://b.rw/T9AUNd
Juliane von Mittelstaedt | Spiegel | 31 August 2012
At a prison in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, former inmates are
confronting their torturers. They talk about the past, seeking
explanations. "I knew that you would come to get me one day," says one
former guard [17]Comments
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/articles/thin-line-between-guilt-and-innocence
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Hal Foster on Pop Art
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
What is pop art? Why did it catch on, and what does it mean? And what
about Warhol – was his work as superficial as he liked to say it was?
The art professor answers all this and more [19]Read on
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hal-foster-on-pop-art
Featured Special Report
[20]The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Once a hero, but now the game is up. Here's how the aggressively
preserved reputation of Lance Armstrong finally crumbled [21]Read on
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/reports/fall-lance-armstrong
Reader Recommendations
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Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/god-biography-by-jack-miles
[28]God: A Biography by Jack Miles
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/god-biography-by-jack-miles
[29]Paula Fredriksen says: "It’s a brilliant literary and
psychoanalytical experiment…an incredibly imaginative meditation on not
only the issue of sin, but also the problem of evil" [30]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/paula-fredriksen-on-sin
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]Big Bangs
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/big-bangs
Michio Kaku on the Higgs boson and its role in the universe [32]More
videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Alexander Nazaryan, on belief
Links:
33. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/09/too-certain-times.html
"Anyone who says we are a society lacking belief is not paying
attention. If anything, we are lacking doubt"
[34]More quotes
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34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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