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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [1 May 2012]

1 May 2012

 Best of the Moment

The True Lessons Of The Recession

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) Comments

What To Do About The Rich?

Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 27 April 2012

"For the rich the spirit of cooperation on which democracy depends is only an option, not a necessity. When the rich engage in politics they are not under the same constraints as the rest of us to find a mutually agreeable solution" Comments

Greatest Films Of All Time

Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert's Journal | 26 April 2012

Film critic prepares his nominations for the poll organised each decade by "Sight and Sound". Out goes Kieslowski's "Dekalog", on a technicality. In comes Malick's "Tree of Life", just ahead of Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" Comments

South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom

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" Comments

The Perfect City Is Under Construction

Will Doig | Salon | 28 April 2012

Portugal's PlanIT Valley aims to be first "sentient" city. But if faces challenges. "Humans will act in ways that even the smartest computer model can fail to anticipate — which is fine, until you put your entire city in its hands" Comments

Against Law, For Order

Mike Konczal | Jacobin | 23 April 2012

"A government that creates mass incarceration is the obvious result of the ideologies of neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism that have come to dominate in the wake of the New Deal liberal order’s collapse." Here's why Comments

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