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Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [19 July 2012]

19 July 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Wanna Be Veep? Okay, But This Is Going To Hurt

Jason Zengerle | GQ | 18 July 2012

After Palin, never again. Aspiring president can't risk having VP candidate blow up on him. Hopefuls get top-to-tail vetting. "It's totally invasive. It's like having a colonoscopy, except they use the Hubble telescope on you" Comments

Bloomberg Can Still Run Washington

Jack Shafer | Reuters | 18 July 2012

New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, 70, has one year left in office, maybe 13 years left on earth. He's made his billions. He's not going for the White House. What's left? Rescuing the Washington Post would be a service to the country Comments

Why Elitism Will Bring Britain Olympic Joy

John Kay | John Kay/FT | 18 July 2012

If you want to be a sporting nation, choose your sport, invest your money, and lead the world. Russia did it in chess. Britain is doing it in cycling. Far more cost-effective than staging prestige events such as the Olympics Comments

The Truth About Human Nature

Lee Perlman | New Atlantis | 18 July 2012

Terrific appraisal of Gulliver's Travels . "The enemy of human authenticity and flourishing is pride, the pinnacle of which is the denial of the lies inherent in our nature." Is this the target of Swift's satire? Comments

Winston Churchill, Author Of Victory

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | TLS | 18 July 2012

On Churchill's other career as a writer, which made him lots of money thanks to his skills in evading taxes and outwitting publishers. "Factory system" of ghostwriters and researchers wrote his histories, won him a Nobel prize Comments

Hiking The Grand Canyon In A Day

John Ore | The Awl | 13 July 2012

Well-told tale of ill-judged college expedition. Most of us have been there. By which we mean not the Grand Canyon, but setting off somewhere with little more than a sweatshirt and a youthful assumption that everything will be ok Comments

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