The Browser daily newsletter [17 Apr 2012]

Daily Newsletter       17 April 2012 An important message from The Browser Dear reader: We will shortly be introducing a number of new products, which we think will greatly enhance your experience of The Browser. Unfortunately this does not come without cost and we will be asking readers who wish to use these products to make a modest contribution to our expenses. We very much hope that, as a recipient of our newsletter, you will be among the first to take advantage of our free two-week trial. Please watch out for further details soon! Our core product, including this newsletter, will remain free.  Best of the Moment Facebook: Like? Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 16 April 2012 Super essay on how Facebook is affecting everday life. "It's not just a technological marvel, a youth movement or a business story. After just eight years of existence, Facebook is the biggest social phenomenon since the telephone" Comments The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit Daron Acemoglu | MIT Press | 6 April 2012 Essay. Ten trends have defined our economic, social, and political lives for the past 100 years. The dominant one has been rising demand for individual rights. Will those trends, or different ones, shape the coming century? (PDF) Comments Nile Journey Jeffrey Bartholet | National Geographic | 17 April 2012 Report from post-revolution Egypt. Away from Tahrir, life on the ground is a confusing mix of aspirations and fears. “It’s as if we have been lost in the desert. We have found our way, but it will still take a long time to get out” Comments Evening The Odds Nicholas Lemann | New Yorker | 16 April 2012 Tour d'horizon of recent books on American inequality and "Superclass" including those by Timothy Noah, Charles Murray, David Rothkopf. Key relationship in society today is no longer church and state, but state and market Comments Technology In America Michael Sacasas | American | 13 April 2012 Revisiting Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America provides starting-point for essay questioning the historical effect of America’s “ideology of technology” on its politics and economy Comments The Forty-Year Itch Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 16 April 2012 The people who control what gets commissioned for TV shows are generally 40-somethings. Their nostalgia is for the era of and just before their birth. Hence "Mad Men" now. For meanings of the Obama era, tune in in the 2050s Comments  FiveBooks Interview Keith Lowe on the Aftermath of World War Two Europe after the war was a scene of both physical and moral destruction. The author of Savage Continent recommends essential reading for understanding the suffering, dislocation and fighting after the war was over  Featured Special Report Healthcare in America The battle over US healthcare reform reaches the Supreme Court. Here's what's at stake  Reader Recommendations @polit2k RT @Ian_Fraser: John Kay on the illusory nature of bank profits t.co/sGzdBMRQ #inetBerlin #gfc2 #browsings  Book of the Day Southern California by Carey McWilliams Dennis McDougal says: “This is a fundamental text for getting a grasp on what makes Southern California tick, and engendered the plot of the movie Chinatown”  Video of the Day Great American Foreclosure Song ProPublica enjoyed the mortgage crisis so much that it wrote a little song about it  Quote of the Day Toby Litt, on reading "The human race is no longer sufficently bored with life to be distracted by an art form as boring as the novel" | Homepage | Mobile Apps | RSS Feeds | Twitter | Facebook | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF