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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [25 Apr 2012]

25 April 2012

 Best of the Moment

Earth To Ben Bernanke

Paul Krugman | NYT | 24 April 2012

US central bank has gone to great lengths to rescue the financial system, but done far less for workers. The Fed chief is a fine economist who previously advocated strong action for situations like this. So why isn't he acting now? Comments

Why Do They Hate Us?

Mona Eltahawy | Foreign Policy | 23 April 2012

A call to arms. "Arab societies hate women. Name me an Arab country, and I'll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend" Comments

Bullying The Nuns

Garry Wills | NYRB | 24 April 2012

The Vatican shows its moral collapse by attacking American nuns. "The bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them" Comments

Europe: A Crisis Of The Centre

Paul Mason | BBC | 24 April 2012

Helpful backgrounder to eurozone's current economic and political turmoil. Holiday from the crisis is ending; ECB's actions averted a "heart attack", but left them nursing an "economic cancer". What will the politicians do next? Comments

Mitt Romney's Failed Definition Of Success

Michael Kinsley | Bloomberg | 20 April 2012

"Sure. Lovely. Let's reward success. But Romney seems to think that success is self-defining. Anyone who has done well deserves what he or she has got. Let’s add up just a few of the ways in which this is not necessarily true" Comments

On The Origins Of The Arts

EO Wilson | Harvard | 20 April 2012

Harvard biologist tackles evolution of culture in a monumental essay. Captivating throughout. "Rich and seemingly boundless as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition" Comments

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