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Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [17 May 2012]

17 May 2012

 Best of the Moment

Facebook: The Ultimate Dot-Com

John Cassidy | New Yorker | 16 May 2012

Cassidy casts his eye over impending Facebook IPO: "It’s the fulfillment of the dreams of the nineties—and a reminder of their potentially fatal attraction." Has a website that expands at astronomic pace just got to be worth money? Comments

What Is The Rational Response?

Malcolm Bull | LRB | 16 May 2012

On the ethical problems of climate change. Should the well-being of future generations take precedence over our own? Are we responsible for the excesses of past generations? All over the world, or just our own compatriots? Comments

Nadir And Me

Joseph Heath | Walrus | 15 May 2012

In Canada, rich and poor sit side by side waiting for treatment in the local public clinic. A good thing. "The health care system constitutes a point of forced solidarity." What's the US equivalent? The courtroom, perhaps? Comments

Glory Days: A Pundit's View Of Pax Americana

Andrew Bacevich | Harper's | 16 May 2012

Against Robert Kagan, and his "Copernican interpretation of contemporary history": America the sun around which all else orbits. His new book, "The World America Made", is "a slim volume of mythopoeia decked out in analytic drag" Comments

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets

AC Grayling | Barnes & Noble Review | 9 May 2012

Grayling comments on Michael Sandel's new book, which explores corrosive effects of assigning a price to everything. Where should we draw the line between the marketable and the unmarketable? What things should remain priceless? Comments

Hong Kong

Michael Paterniti | National Geographic | 15 May 2012

Hong Kong is in flux once more. "Now a Chinese special administrative region, it is being remade yet again under diamond pressure. And increasingly this city of over seven million inhabitants floats on a growing sense of unease" Comments

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