Weekly newsletter 37
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotations and more.
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Best of the Week
[5]The Failure Of The Euro
Links:
5. http://b.rw/tW2Y5F
Martin Feldstein | Foreign Affairs | 15 December 2011
Outstanding essay on history of euro crisis, way forwards for single
currency: "The eurozone is likely to continue with almost all its current
members. The challenge now will be to change the economic behavior of those
countries" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/failure-euro
[7]Bashar al-Assad, His Father's Son
Links:
7. http://b.rw/snSufB
Jerrold Post | Foreign Policy | 20 December 2011
Ex-CIA analyst discusses Syrian leader's trajectory from moderniser to
mass-murderer. Parallels with Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam. Both spent time
in the West, enough to learn new ideas, but not enough for deep change
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bashar-al-assad-his-fathers-son
[9]The Girl With The Father Tattoo
Links:
9. http://b.rw/vIArmj
Michele Pridmore-Brown | LA Review of Books | 15 December 2011
How fathers shape their daughters. "The girlish power to redeem men has a
long tradition. But the bar on committed or 'good-enough' fatherhood has
risen radically in recent years, and especially so with respect to girls"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/girl-father-tattoo
[11]The Wisdom Of Crowds
Links:
11. http://b.rw/rp04cc
Anonymous | Economist | 17 December 2011
Super piece on science of pedestrian behaviour, how we negotiate space as we
walk down busy pavements. “At low densities, behaviour is cognitive and
strategic. At high density, it’s about mass movement and physical pressures"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wisdom-crowds
[13]Breakthroughs In Faith
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13. http://b.rw/tmIar1
Olivier Roy | World Policy Institute | 19 December 2011
Fine essay on religion, democracy. "It does not make sense to demand
religious liberalism or theological reform or a preliminary secularization
as a requirement for making religion compatible with democracy." Here's why
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/breakthroughs-faith
[15]On Being The Right Size
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vfxoiJ
J.B.S. Haldane | Farnam Street | 20 December 2011
Republished, and still well worth a read. "For every type of animal there is
an optimum size. The same is true for every human institution. The English
invention of representative government made a democratic nation possible"
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/being-right-size
[17]Smoke Screening
Links:
17. http://b.rw/utlIkj
Charles Mann | Vanity Fair | 20 December 2011
Writer tests out US airport security. With a bit of help from expert Bruce
Schneier. And a fake boarding pass. The verdict? Damning: "Not only is it
not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to
do" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/smoke-screening
[19]Christopher Hitchens: 'The Consummate Writer, The Brilliant Friend'
Links:
19. http://b.rw/t9Puef
Ian McEwan | Guardian | 16 December 2011
Wonderful, touching piece from McEwan remembering last weeks of his great
friend. A writer, to the last: "His head would droop, his eyes close, then
with superhuman effort he would drag himself awake to type another line"
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/christopher-hitchens-consummate-writer-brilliant-friend
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Bruce Forbes on Christmas History
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-forbes-on-christmas-history
Did you know that Santa Claus was a 4th century bishop in what is now
Turkey? That Puritans tried to outlaw Christmas? Or Tiny Tim was originally
Little Fred? We shed light on Christmas’s pagan past and consumerist present
[22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-forbes-on-christmas-history
Featured Topic
[23]North Korea
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
In the aftermath of Kim Jong-il's death, we look back at the legacy of his
tyrannical rule over North Korea [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/north-korea
Reader Recommendations
[25]@polit2k Simon Johnson: No One Is Above the Law, Even
Megabanks: [26]t.co/QK2EAD0b #[27]browsings #[28]gfc2 [29]More like this
Links:
25. http://twitter.com/polit2k
26. http://t.co/QK2EAD0b
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[30]Book of the Day
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/father-christmas-goes-holiday-by-raymond-briggs
[31]Father Christmas Goes on Holiday by Raymond Briggs
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/father-christmas-goes-holiday-by-raymond-briggs
[32]Father Christmas says: I don’t know how that Briggs character got a good
look at me, but a look he’s had and that’s a fact. [33]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/children-best-fivebooks
33. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[34]Seconds Of Beauty
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/videos/seconds-beauty
Compilation of entries for The Beauty Of A Second short film contest.
Absolutely breathtaking
[35]More videos
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[36]Highdeas, on film
Links:
36. http://highdeas.com
"If you watch 'Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps
throwing up people until they have to open a beach"
[37]More quotes
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37. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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