Will The Chinese Be Supreme? | Ian Johnson | New York Review Of Books | 26...
Edward Luttwak thinks not: "Only a fully democratic China could advance unimpeded to global hegemony, but then the governments of a full democratic China would undoubtedly seek to pursue quite other...
View ArticleGay Marriage Hits The Supreme Court | Jonathan Rauch | Brookings | 26 March 2013
Court will, in effect, have to make a political decision: "Gay marriage doesn't fit any existing judicial template. It doesn't neatly fit civil-rights decisions overturning, for example, racial...
View ArticleA Delicate Operation | Simon Garfield | Intelligent Life | 01 March 2013
Urologist specialising in prostate cancer contracts prostate cancer, opts for surgery. "Professor Dasgupta places his colleague’s gland on a piece of gauze and prods and stretches it. It is...
View ArticleThe Best Way To Save Banking Is To Kill It | Matthew Klein | Bloomberg | 27...
Enough pussy-footing. Time for a radical remedy. "Rip all banks, large or small, in two — separate deposit-taking from credit-creation. Back the deposits one-for-one with reserves at the central bank....
View ArticleThe Costs Of Justice | Andrew Kaufman | Hazlitt | 27 March 2013
Proceedings in a Canadian small claims court. Which may not sound like a compelling proposition, but persevere and you will find a charming vignette. "Here, in this room, all of these professionals...
View ArticleIn 2000, The Year Formerly Known As The Future | David Bauer | Medium | 25...
"You wake up at 7am on a wonderful morning in early 2000. Dreamy as you are, you grab your phone to check the news and your email. Well, the news is that no one has texted you while you were sleeping...
View ArticleWhat Can Atheists Learn From Believers? | Alain de Botton et al | New...
"Atheists should learn to rescue some of what is beautiful, touching and wise. What is good within the faiths belongs to all of mankind, even the most rational, and deserves to be reabsorbed...
View Article'Face' And Something 'Delicious' | Sergey Radchenko | Foreign Policy | 27...
Fear of inferiority has been the thread running through Sino-Soviet relations since Mao first met Stalin. Then it was China that was the lesser partner. Now it is Russia. When Deng and Gorbachev...
View ArticleSpitballing Indy | Patrick Radden Keefe | New Yorker | 26 March 2013
How to make a Hollywood blockbuster — in this case, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Notes from conversations in which George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan hashed out ideas for plot...
View ArticleRoman Abramovich And The Desecration Of London | Harry Mount | Spectator | 28...
London's finest houses are being hollowed out and knocked through to suit billionaire buyers who want huge, swanky living spaces. "Those handsome corridors, stairs, doors and walls are heading for the...
View ArticleNote To Our Readers: RSS Feeds | Robert Cottrell | The Browser | 28 March 2013
As part of our move to a new platform and new hosting today, we are consolidating our RSS feeds into a one full feed, to which you can subscribe at this address (if it's not live now it will be soon):...
View ArticleNote To Our Readers: This Is An Archive | Robert Cottrell | The Browser | 29...
This site is being left online as an archive of Browser content posted prior to the launch of the new Browser platform on 28th March 2013. It is no longer updated or actively maintained. More about...
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