Weekly newsletter 55
[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 True Lessons Of The Recession
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5. http://b.rw/IEoaUS
Raghuram Rajan | Booth School of Business/Foreign Affairs | 30 April
2012
Excellent, authoritative and measured overview of today's economic
ills. Much papering-over of cracks in past few decades. Status quo ante
not a good place to return to. So here are some suggestions for ways
forward (PDF) [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/true-lessons-recession
[7]South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom
Links:
7. http://b.rw/Kn22ig
Nadine Gordimer | NYRB | 30 April 2012
"In the new South Africa that was reborn in the early 1990s, with its
freedom hard-won from apartheid, we now have the imminent threat of
updated versions of the suppression of freedom of expression that
gagged us under apartheid" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/south-africa-new-threat-freedom
[9]Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…Or Smart
Links:
9. http://b.rw/IIWkKx
Chad Wellmon | Hedgehog Review | 27 April 2012
"Asking whether Google makes us stupid, as some cultural critics
recently have, is the wrong question. It assumes sharp distinctions
between humans and technology that are no longer, if they ever were,
tenable." Here's why [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-google-isn’t-making-us-stupid…or-smart
[11]On Tiger Moms
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11. http://b.rw/K3SnAC
Julie Park | The Point | 24 April 2012
Clever, nuanced essay reconsiders Amy Chua's parenting advice.
"Precisely because I was raised in a Tiger Mom world, but rebelled
against it, I understand where Chua is coming from, but I can also see
what remains invisible to her" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tiger-moms
[13]Ego Depletion
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IvY6Sw
Anonymous | You Are Not So Smart | 17 April 2012
Fascinating essay on willpower. Tests suggest it's a finite resource,
not a skill. "Every time you exert control over the giant system that
is you, that control gets weaker." Why? It just might be as simple as a
lack of glucose [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ego-depletion
[15]Leaving Wall Street
Links:
15. http://b.rw/IoOFmS
Alexis Goldstein | n+1 | 30 April 2012
Everyone who joins an investment bank plans to make a fortune, get out,
and do something else. They rarely succeed. "The culture of Wall Street
is pervasive and contagious. Before I occupied Wall Street, Wall Street
occupied me" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/leaving-wall-street
[17]Against Chairs
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17. http://b.rw/Kq8Uf5
Colin McSwiggen | Jacobin | 23 April 2012
"Chairs suck. All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair,
because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are
bad." They damage our bodies. And rose to popularity for worst of
reasons — status, power, control [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/against-chairs
[19]Machine Politics
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19. http://b.rw/IkIltQ
David Kushner | New Yorker | 30 April 2012
George Hotz started the hacker wars. The grungy teenager from New
Jersey was the first person to unlock an iPhone. But it was when he
defeated Sony's PS3 that things started getting really out of hand
[20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/machine-politics
FiveBooks Interview
[21]William St Clair on Reading the Romantics
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-st-clair-on-reading-romantics
Who read Byron in his time? How much did a copy of Wordsworth cost? The
scholar guides us through the astonishing history of reading in the
Romantic period of English literature [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/william-st-clair-on-reading-romantics
Featured Topic
[23]France Votes
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
Opinion polls suggest the Socialist challenger, Francois Hollande, is
well placed to eject Nicolas Sarkozy from the presidency. On Sunday,
French voters will decide [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/france-votes
Reader Recommendations
[25]AmandaGiracca “But what about the man on the other side of your
gun?" asks @[26]SimoneGorrindo :[27]t.co/HJf4NK5l [28]#browsings
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29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[30]Book of the Day
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/year-amongst-persians-by-edward-g-browne
[31]A Year Amongst the Persians by Edward G Browne
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/year-amongst-persians-by-edward-g-browne
[32]Tim Mackintosh-Smith says: The bit that I love the most is when he
gets in with these dervishes. He talks about being intoxicated by opium
smoke and mysticism [33]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-mackintosh-smith-on-travelling-muslim-world
33. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[34]Venice in a Day
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34. http://thebrowser.com/videos/venice-day
Not quite the city of "Don't Look Now"
[35]More videos
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35. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[36]Avishai Margalit, on compromise
Links:
36. http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/102761/compromise-margalit-guttmann-thompson-yalta
“Ideals tell us what we would like to be, but compromises tell us
who we are"
[37]More quotes
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37. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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