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Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [23 Aug 2012]

23 August 2012
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 Best of the Moment

The Elusive Obama Doctrine

Leslie Gelb | National Interest | 22 August 2012

Generally friendly essay critiquing US foreign policy under President Obama. He avoided big errors. Handled tactical challenges fairly well. But he's lacked strategic thinking, and doesn't understand interplay of strategy and power Comments

Interview: Richard Dawkins

Anonymous | Playboy | 20 August 2012

And this month's centrefold is... Britain's atheist-in-chief. If only. "I think a particular god like Zeus or Jehovah is as unlikely as the tooth fairy, but the idea of some kind of creative intelligence is not quite so ridiculous" Comments

Follow The Money

David Conn | London Review Of Books | 22 August 2012

How English football became a business. Superb overview from 1980s to present day. Key moment was creation of the Premier League in 1992, a money grab by the big clubs that cut funding from the rest of football Comments

Preparing For A Worst-Case Euro Scenario

Miguel Angel Garcia Vega | El PaĆ­s | 20 August 2012

"The euro zone was put together along the lines of a lobster trap: Easy to get in, but very difficult to get out." Which is a worry for companies across the region, who now feel they need to prepare for a break-up. But how? Comments

Lester Bangs: Truth Teller

Maria Bustillos | New Yorker | 21 August 2012

Short fat alcoholic. Died at 33. Finest rock critic of his generation. Prose stylist. On Mick Jagger: "A spastic flap-lipped tornado writhing from here to a million steaming snatches and beyond in one undifferentiated mass" Comments

Life On Board A British Nuclear Submarine

Stephen Moss | Guardian | 21 August 2012

"Climbing the ladders between decks exhausts me; I am forever hitting my head on protruding bits of metal; and once in the control room, while leaning against the periscope, I stumble backwards and accidentally press a button" Comments

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