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Monday, March 19, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [19 Mar 2012]

19 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

Afghanistan: A Gathering Menace

Neil Shea | American Scholar | 12 March 2012

With US forces. "Many times I have watched soldiers or Marines, driven by boredom or fear, behave selfishly and meanly, even illegally, in minor ways. [Now] I felt I was watching some of the men unravel toward serious crimes" Comments

The Paul Clement Court

Jason Zengerle | New York | 18 March 2012

Legal case seeking overturn of Obamacare comes before Supreme Court next week. It's a defining moment. The man leading the case for the plaintiffs is Paul Clement, former solicitor general in Bush administration, and a coming man Comments

Your Brain On Fiction

Annie Murphy Paul | NYT | 17 March 2012

Investigating what neuroscience has to say about people who read novels. "Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined" Comments

Logically Speaking

Richard Marshall | 3:AM Magazine | 17 March 2012

Philosopher Graham Priest discusses paraconsistent logic, paradoxes, dialetheism. "Contrary to orthodoxy in Western philosophy, some claims are true and false, that is, they have a true negation. Nor is this irrational." Here's why Comments

Broken English

Leo Benedictus | Prospect | 22 February 2012

"Dog In The Night-Time"; "Never Let Me Go"; "Black Swan Green". What do they, and other recent novels, have in common? A narrator who leaves us guessing as to the full story. Is this "hindered narrator" the voice of our times? Comments

Listening To Xanax

Lisa Miller | New York | 18 March 2012

"God's gift", chill pills, benzos. Fast-acting anti-anxiety drugs for stressed workers. This is the era of Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin. A lot of Americans are taking them, casually. And with little thought of the consequences Comments

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