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Monday, March 26, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [26 Mar 2012]

26 March 2012

 Best of the Moment

Mail Supremacy

Lauren Collins | New Yorker | 26 March 2012

Compelling profile of the Daily Mail, Britain's most powerful newspaper. Closest US equivalent, Fox News. Run, with a furious energy, by Paul Dacre, whose editorial meetings are known as the Vagina Monologues. For reasons made clear Comments

Greed Is The Beginning of Everything

Romain Leick | Spiegel | 23 March 2012

Interview with Tomas Sedlacek, freethinking Czech economist and philosopher. "Complicated mathematical models are simply wrong or pointless at best. The real question should be: Is the economy working the way we want it to?" Comments

Stag Party

Frank Rich | New York | 25 March 2012

Rich argues that Rick Santorum speaks more boldly than many, but is not an outlier in the Republican party. "This rush of anti-woman activity on the right isn’t coming exclusively from the Santorum crowd. It extends across the GOP" Comments

Escape From Iran

Sohrab Ahmari | Atlantic | 20 March 2012

The story of Houshang Bouzari, once a well-connected Iranian businessman. But his involvement in a lucrative project attracted the attention of the Rafsanjanis, with most unpleasant results. A grim insight into clerical rule Comments

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Arundhati Roy | Outlook India | 17 March 2012

"Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises—War and Shopping—simply will not work." Typically provocative essay from Roy on India, capitalism, philanthropy, development Comments

Beyond The Battlefield: Afghanistan's Wounded Struggle With Genital Injuries

David Wood | Huffington Post | 22 March 2012

"Before they went off to fight in Afghanistan, the guys of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines talked quietly about their deepest fear. Not dying. Not losing a leg or an arm. It was having their genitals ripped off, burned away or crushed" Comments

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