Weekly newsletter 38
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotations and more.
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[5]Best Of 2011: The End of the American Era
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vfAjUx
Stephen Walt | National Interest | 25 October 2011
"The era when the United States could create and lead a political, economic
and security order in virtually every part of the world is coming to an end.
Which raises the obvious question: What should we do about it?" Excellent
essay [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-american-era
[7]Best Of 2011: The Xinjiang Procedure
Links:
7. http://b.rw/urPQz9
Ethan Gutmann | Weekly Standard | 25 November 2011
"Chinese medical authorities admit the lion’s share of transplant organs
originate with executions, but no mainland doctors, even in exile, will
normally speak of performing such surgery." Now one has. Prepare for a
shocking story [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure
[9]Best Of 2011: The Overjustification Effect
Links:
9. http://b.rw/uMOkbT
Anonymous | You Are Not So Smart | 14 December 2011
Superb essay on money, happiness. "No matter how you turn it, the science
says once your basic needs are taken care of, money and other rewards don’t
make you happier." If you think differently, you're deluding yourself.
Here's why [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/overjustification-effect
[11]Best Of 2011: Nelson Mandela's Legacy
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qDftpv
John Carlin | Cairo Review of Global Affairs | 10 July 2011
Tremendously well-crafted, well-informed piece of writing, paying tribute to
political skills and intelligence of former South African president. To
focus on his (admirable) spirit of forgiveness is to underestimate the man
hugely [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nelson-mandelas-legacy
[13]Best Of 2011: Varieties Of Irreligious Experience
Links:
13. http://b.rw/ogPFGg
Jonathan Rée | New Humanist | 14 September 2011
Outstanding on evolution of atheism and complexity of religious belief.
Rationalists should realise modern believers "may not accept the idea of God
as an actually existing entity, so arguments for atheism will not disturb
them" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/varieties-irreligious-experience
[15]Best Of 2011: Dr Don
Links:
15. http://b.rw/putYoB
Peter Hessler | New Yorker | 20 September 2011
New Yorker at its best—and that's setting the bar high. Profile of Don
Colcord, small-town pharmacist in Colorado. Dispenses drugs and medical
advice, fixes watches, knows customers by name, helps out poor, holds town
together [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dr-don
[17]Best Of 2011: Welcome To The Age Of Overparenting
Links:
17. http://b.rw/rGO07z
Katherine Ozment | Boston Magazine | 30 November 2011
Cautionary tale of modern parenting: "I’d bought into the self-esteem dogma
— the idea that bathing our children in good feeling and positive
reinforcement arms them with the confidence they need to lead better lives."
A mistake [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/welcome-age-overparenting
[19]Best Of 2011: The Movie Set That Ate Itself
Links:
19. http://b.rw/tlh7nM
Michael Idov | GQ | 27 October 2011
Unmissable story of a most bizarre film project. A cast of thousands. Many
living full-time in a nightmare vision of 1950s Moscow. A totalitarian
society, under the control of a deranged director. Where the cameras are
always on [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/movie-set-ate-itself
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Best of FiveBooks on Travel
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/travel-best-fivebooks
From rafting down the Nile to the first voyage to the Antarctic, we select
five travel books from our archive that will give you the wanderlust for
2012 [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/travel-best-fivebooks
Featured Topic
[23]Sport's Violence Problem
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Nobody wants to take away the thrill and drama of the NFL or NHL, but is
middle age dementia an acceptable price for ex-players to pay? [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/sports-violence-problem
Reader Recommendations
_@nuzav_ Princeton Brews Trouble for Us 1 Percenters: Michael Lewis -
Bloomberg [25]t.co/yUscTDHZ via _@BloombergView_ [26]#browsings [27]More
like this
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25. http://t.co/yUscTDHZ
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/lion-witch-and-wardrobe-by-cs-lewis
[29]The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/lion-witch-and-wardrobe-by-cs-lewis
[30]Lev Grossman says: I don’t think Lewis gets enough credit for his craft
as a writer. The books are deceptively simple, one precisely observed
sensory detail after another [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/lion-witch-and-wardrobe-by-cs-lewis
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Leila
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/leila
Public service announcement in the spirit of M Night Shyamalan [33]More
videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Gertrude Stein, on repetition
Links:
34. http://bobulate.com/post/14930080224/the-question-of-repetition-is-very-important-it
"There is no such thing as repetition. There is always a slight variation"
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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