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Sunday, October 23, 2011

TheBrowser daily newsletter [23 Oct 2011]

23 October 2011

 Best of the Moment

Colonel Gaddafi: The Last Of The Buffoon Dictators?

Kevin Connolly | BBC | 22 October 2011

"He was an old-fashioned, theatrical sort of tyrant, whose lineage you can trace from the bombastic ravings of Mussolini, through the kilted debauchery of Idi Amin, to the platform-heeled kleptocracy of Omar Bongo of Gabon" Comments

Shanghai Gets Supersized

David Devoss | Smithsonian | 20 October 2011

Brief history of Chinese boom city. Opium trade key to 19th century growth. Now home to 23 million people and more than 200 skyscrapers. "We’re from Shanghai. We care only about money. You want to talk politics, go to Beijing" Comments

Our 'Broken System' Of Criminal Justice

John Paul Stevens | NYRB | 21 October 2011

You cannot accuse the former Supreme Court judge of being an easy read, but plenty to ponder in this review-essay focusing on the history of discrimination against African-Americans. They are under-policed, and over-punished Comments

Africa's Albertine Rift

Robert Draper | National Geographic | 19 October 2011

Despatch from Rift Valley where a desperate, violent battle for land and resources is playing out. "Overcrowding has spawned an anxiety so primal and omnipresent that one hears the same plea over and over again: We want land!" Comments

Post-Imperial Blues: A Letter From Vienna

Franz Cede | American Interest | 21 October 2011

Former Austrian ambassador to Moscow compares post-Habsburg Austria with post-Soviet Russia. Very different countries, many points of comparison. "The sudden loss of empire has a way of taking the wind out of politics in general" Comments

How The Nomad Found Home

Michael McRae | Outside | 21 October 2011

More than a decade ago, biologist Mike Fay walked across Africa, spurring the creation of national parks and making him a conservation star. So why, after fighting to protect wild places, is he now questioning the basis of his work? Comments

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