Weekly newsletter 51
[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]America’s Dream Unravels
Links:
5. http://b.rw/H5UjEC
Edward Luce | FT | 30 March 2012
Outstanding essay looks at America's economic and political malaise. A
country where the Walton family is worth as much as bottom 150 million.
"Brain power is America’s future. But it doesn’t always appear too
cerebral in practice" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/america’s-dream-unravels
[7]The God Of Gamblers
Links:
7. http://b.rw/H6WuMV
Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 2 April 2012
"By 2006 Macau's casino revenues had surpassed those of Las Vegas,
until then the world's largest gambling town. Today, the quantity of
money passing through Macau exceeds that of Las Vegas five times over."
Here's how it happened [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/god-gamblers
[9]I Want To Be Alone: The Rise And Rise Of Solo Living
Links:
9. http://b.rw/H6ARhc
Eric Klinenberg et al | Guardian | 30 March 2012
"During the past half-century, our species has embarked on a remarkable
social experiment. For the first time, great numbers of people – at all
ages, in all places, of every political persuasion – have begun living
alone" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-want-be-alone-rise-and-rise-solo-living
[11]The War Against Youth
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HGDobL
Stephen Marche | Esquire | 28 March 2012
The old are eating the young. They may not have set out to do so, but
economic and social policy has been rigged to serve their interests.
It's unaffordable socialism for the old; virulently purified capitalism
for the young [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-against-youth
[13]How Millions Have Been Dying In The Congo
Links:
13. http://b.rw/Hv7JNZ
Neal Ascherson | NYRB | 31 March 2012
If you know terrible things have been happening in Central Africa for
the past couple of decades, not to say the past couple of centuries,
but you can't get the whole story straight in your head, this piece
does it for you [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-millions-have-been-dying-congo
[15]Christianity In Crisis
Links:
15. http://b.rw/HHRfU6
Andrew Sullivan | Newsweek | 1 April 2012
Sullivan laments state of Christianity in America. Where secular, for
many, has come to mean atheist and "the ability to be faithful in a
religious space and reasonable in a political one has atrophied before
our eyes" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/christianity-crisis
[17]A Death In Yellowstone
Links:
17. http://b.rw/Hcb8DK
Jessica Grose | Slate | 2 April 2012
John Wallace was sitting quietly on a log in Yellowstone national park
when he was attacked by a bear. His body was later found half-eaten.
This is the story of how blame was assigned, and a killer grizzly
caught [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/death-yellowstone
[19]CS Lewis On Writing
Links:
19. http://b.rw/Hg1L1B
CS Lewis | Letters Of Note | 3 April 2012
Text of letter CS Lewis sent to a fan in 1956. Contains memorable
advice on writing, correct use of English. Remember: "Never use
abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean 'More people
died' don't say 'Mortality rose'" [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cs-lewis-writing
FiveBooks Interview
[21]AC Grayling on Being Good
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good
What does a moral life entail? How does one achieve it? AC Grayling
looks at the classics of philosophy for the answers, and says that it
is the striving for goodness and self-improvement itself that is the
key to living well [22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good
Featured Topic
[23]Mitt Romney
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Slowly, he's clawing his way to the Republican nomination. But what
makes the man who would be president tick? [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mitt-romney
Reader Recommendations
@rszbt Only time w/ tell whether this will bear fruit: MT @polit2k: The
economics spring, Daniel Gay [25]t.co/qYUIfU36 @Ian_Fraser
[26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/qYUIfU36
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/infinities-by-john-banville
[29]The Infinities by John Banville
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/infinities-by-john-banville
[30]Faramerz Dabhoiwala says: “His diaries give us a first-hand view of
the sex life of an 18th century gentleman with a rather powerful sex
drive. That in itself is fascinating” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/faramerz-dabhoiwala-on-18th-century-sexual-revolution
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Marco Tempest
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/marco-tempest
TED talk: Magic as augmented reality, and vice-versa
[33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Andrew Sullivan, on Barack Obama
Links:
34. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/andrewsullivan/rApM/~3/Loj01BotpRw/the-rig.html
"I correctly gauged the American public's willingness to elect a
biracial president. I drastically over-rated their willingness to be
governed by one"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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