Weekly newsletter 41
[1]A selection of our best article links of the week, plus featured
FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotations and more.
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[5]Not Fade Away
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5. http://b.rw/wT98dO
Robert Kagan | New Republic | 11 January 2012
"Is the United States in decline, as so many seem to believe these days? Or
are Americans in danger of committing pre-emptive superpower suicide out of
a misplaced fear of their own declining power?" The second, says Kagan
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/not-fade-away
[7]The Rise And Consequences Of Inequality In The United States
Links:
7. http://b.rw/yGTXKW
Alan Krueger | Center For American Progress | 12 January 2012
Share of income going to top 1% has reached "mindboggling" levels. Middle
class has shrunk, economic mobility has fallen. Here's why it happened, what
it means, and what to do about it (10-page PDF with additional PowerPoint
slides) [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rise-and-consequences-inequality-united-states
[9]The Secrets Apple Keeps
Links:
9. http://b.rw/wDVIyX
Adam Lashinsky | Fortune | 18 January 2012
Fascinating look at life inside Apple. "Outside, Apple is revered. Inside,
it is cultish." So obsessed with secrecy that many employees are hired
without even knowing what their roles will be. And that's just the start of
it [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/secrets-apple-keeps
[11]National Subjects
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11. http://b.rw/xsRMl1
Aleksandar Hemon | Guernica | 16 January 2012
Bosnia is a society shattered by war, its broken parts redivided and
bargained over by Bosniak, Croat and Serb alike. Segregation and teaching of
ethnic identity begins early, as this superb essay describes [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/national-subjects
[13]Internet Regulation & The Economics Of Piracy
Links:
13. http://b.rw/zpFvNE
Julian Sanchez | Cato Institute | 18 January 2012
"No matter how bad last season's crops were, witch burnings are a poor
policy response." Outstanding essay questions effect of digital piracy, need
for government regulation. Conclusion? There is no dire, pressing threat to
industry [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/internet-regulation-economics-piracy
[15]The Years Of Stagnation And The Poodles Of Power
Links:
15. http://b.rw/yqZlNg
Adam Curtis | BBC | 18 January 2012
Typically provocative blog post compares West of today with Soviet Union of
1980s. Clearly many differences but similarities Curtis finds are striking
– disillusion with politics, economics, corrupt technocrats, vacuous society
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/years-stagnation-and-poodles-power
[17]The New Philosophy Of Cosmology
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17. http://b.rw/zer8dD
Ross Anderson | The Atlantic | 19 January 2012
Fascinating. Interview with Tim Maudlin, a philosopher at forefront of a
whole new field – the philosophy of cosmology. Where science runs out of
answers – what is time, what happened before the Big Bang – is where his
work starts [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/new-philosophy-cosmology
[19]'Lawdy, Lawdy, He's Great'
Links:
19. http://b.rw/AgrXqR
Mark Kram | Sports Illustrated | 17 January 2012
In honour of Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday, SI republishes this memorable
piece from 1975, written after the Thrilla in Manila. "Man, I hit him with
punches that'd bring down the walls of a city," said a defeated Joe Frazier
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lawdy-lawdy-hes-great
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Will Hutton on Fairness and Inequality
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
In contemporary capitalist societies, some inequality is inevitable and
desirable. But the rewards for the few at the top have soared while the rest
have been squeezed. We need a new social contract, says the author and
columnist [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-hutton-on-fairness-and-inequality
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
_@polit2k_ RT _@TimHarford_: Does Austerity Promote Economic Growth? -
Robert J. Shiller [25]t.co/9gdkvXKk #gfc2 [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/9gdkvXKk
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
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28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/“you’re-okay-it’s-just-bruise”-by-rob-huizenga
[29]“You’re Okay, It’s Just a Bruise” by Rob Huizenga
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/“you’re-okay-it’s-just-bruise”-by-rob-huizenga
[30]Rick Telander says: “He divulges the incredibly damaging things that
football team doctors did. They did not care about the players’ wellbeing:
They were there to help the team win” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rick-telander-on-american-football-and-its-dark-side
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Protect IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/sopa-breaks-internet
Introduction to Protect IP / SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act) - what it is,
why it matters. And why we should all be against it
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Dominic Lawson, on government
Links:
34. http://www.editorialintelligence.com/ebulletin/viewonline.php
"If your policy is one of retrenchment and austerity, it is advisable to
come up with something other than economic growth as a measure of your
success"
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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