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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [2 May 2012]

2 May 2012

 Best of the Moment

Leaving Wall Street

Alexis Goldstein | n+1 | 30 April 2012

Everyone who joins an investment bank plans to make a fortune, get out, and do something else. They rarely succeed. "The culture of Wall Street is pervasive and contagious. Before I occupied Wall Street, Wall Street occupied me" Comments

The Legendary Paul Ryan

Jonathan Chait | New York | 29 April 2012

On the chairman of House Budget Committee, designer of Republican budget. Rose seemingly without trace. All but unchallengeable by Romney, other senior Republicans. Democrats are having a job too. But his plan is not moderate Comments

Against Chairs

Colin McSwiggen | Jacobin | 23 April 2012

"Chairs suck. All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair, because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are bad." They damage our bodies. And rose to popularity for worst of reasons - status, power, control Comments

Beholden

Rebecca Solnit | Guernica | 30 April 2012

Broad discussion with Occupy movement's intellectual figurehead David Graeber. From Islamic origins of free market ideology to virtues of anarchism. "I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism" Comments

The Call Of The Future

Tom Vanderbilt | Wilson Quarterly | 30 April 2012

What can the history of the telephone teach us about effects of technology on society? To find out Vanderbilt takes us back to a time when the “talking telegraph” was a novelty, and all telephone receivers had "trumpets" Comments

Uncatchable

Michael Finkel | GQ | 1 May 2012

Robber, con artist, plane hijacker, escaped prisoner, domestic terrorist. George Wright is all of the above. He spent 41 years on the run. Until police trapped him in Portugal. But there was still time for one last great escape Comments

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