Weekly newsletter 57
[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]Anne Boleyn: Witch, Bitch, Temptress, Feminist
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5. http://b.rw/Jt2bDy
Hilary Mantel | Guardian | 11 May 2012
"Anne Boleyn is one of the most controversial women in English history;
we argue over her, we pity and admire and revile her, we reinvent her
in every generation. Her rise is glittering, her fall sordid. God pays
her out" [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/anne-boleyn-witch-bitch-temptress-feminist
[7]Money Unlimited
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7. http://b.rw/JbIT72
Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 14 May 2012
How America's Supreme Court rewrote campaign finance law in the case of
Citizens United. "The decision followed a lengthy and bitter
behind-the-scenes struggle that produced both secret unpublished
opinions and a rare reargument" [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/money-unlimited
[9]What Is The Rational Response?
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9. http://b.rw/Jslej3
Malcolm Bull | LRB | 16 May 2012
On the ethical problems of climate change. Should the well-being of
future generations take precedence over our own? Are we responsible for
the excesses of past generations? All over the world, or just our own
compatriots? [10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-rational-response
[11]Time To Admit Defeat
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11. http://b.rw/LIAo2w
Anonymous | Spiegel | 14 May 2012
The view from Germany: "Greece has been in intensive care for years,
but the patient, instead of recovering, is just getting sicker and
sicker." Elections were final straw, it's time to leave the euro.
Here's how it could happen [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/greece-can-no-longer-delay-euro-zone-exit
[13]Can You Call A 9-Year-Old A Psychopath?
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13. http://b.rw/JjEnp1
Jennifer Kahn | NYT | 11 May 2012
Nine year old Michael is unlike others. His parents took him to see
psychologist Dan Waschbusch. Who diagnosed him as a psychopath. "Even
if accurate, it’s a ruinous diagnosis. No one is sympathetic to the
mother of a psychopath" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/can-you-call-9-year-old-psychopath
[15]Hong Kong
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15. http://b.rw/IW2hkQ
Michael Paterniti | National Geographic | 15 May 2012
Hong Kong is in flux once more. "Now a Chinese special administrative
region, it is being remade yet again under diamond pressure. And
increasingly this city of over seven million inhabitants floats on a
growing sense of unease" [16]Comments
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16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hong-kong
[17]On Censorship
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17. http://b.rw/Jvn30A
Salman Rushdie | New Yorker | 15 May 2012
Superb short essay in favour of boat-rocking. "Originality is
dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles
moral codes." This is where great art comes from. If we believe in
liberty, we must celebrate it [18]Comments
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18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/censorship
[19]Bullfighting Is Not A Sport, It Is A Tragedy
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19. http://b.rw/JDPFRp
Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway Papers/Toronto Star | 7 May 2012
Hemingway's old paper, the Toronto Star, has launched a terrific new
project to republish his columns. In this piece, from 1923, Hemingway
describes the first bullfights he saw – an experience he was to revisit
in his first novel [20]Comments
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20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bullfighting-not-sport-it-tragedy
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Philip Ball on the Origins of Curiosity
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21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-ball-on-origins-curiosity
Modern science emerged only when it became acceptable to ask any
question about anything – and that required erosion of traditional
hierarchies, says the science writer [22]Read on
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22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philip-ball-on-origins-curiosity
Featured Topic
[23]Paying for the US Election
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23. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
How much is Romney vs Obama 2012 going to cost? Who's paying? And what
do they expect in return? [24]Read on
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24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav So, you think reason guides your politics? Think again | Simon
Jenkins [25]t.co/T4XAPXuv via @guardian [26]#browsings [27]More like
this
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25. http://t.co/T4XAPXuv
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/blue-monday-by-rick-coleman
[29]Blue Monday by Rick Coleman
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29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/blue-monday-by-rick-coleman
[30]Keith Spera says: “On a Mount Rushmore of rock’n’roll, Fats Domino
would certainly be there. He was one of the guys that transitioned
rhythm and blues into rock’n’roll” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/keith-spera-on-music-new-orleans
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Welcome To Life
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32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/welcome-life
What you will see when you get reborn, as required by the legal
department [33]More videos
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33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Harry Truman, on negotiating
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34. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/09/hail_mary_time_a_far_fetched_plan_to_solve_the_syrian_mess
"It's amazing what you can achieve if you don't care who gets the
credit"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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