The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for August 11, 2012
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By David Sessions.
Big Med Atul Gawande, The New Yorker
Restaurant chains have managed to combine quality control, cost control, and innovation. Can health care?The Naked and the TEDEvgeny Morozov, The New RepublicTaking apart the recycled, futuristic kitsch that dominates the global “ideas” industry.Allen West’s Rise from the Florida Fever SwampsTim Murphy, Mother JonesA trip to the belly of the anti-Shariah beast.My Epic HackingMatt Honan, Wired.comApple and Amazon’s weak security protocols fall to reckless teenage hackers, and a tech journalist’s digital life is erased overnight.Old Polymaths Never DieAdrian Woolridge, The Economist/More Intelligent Life…they just keep on publishing. The unstoppable legacies of Isaiah Berlin and Hugh Trevor-Roper. (Bonus short read: Martin Amis in The New Republic on leaving the English literary scene.)America the AnxiousDavid Frum, NewsweekThe recession is over—but not for you. From penniless retirement accounts to frozen wages, demographic uneasiness to inept lawmakers, the bad news seems here to stay.
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FussbudgetRyan Lizza, The New YorkerWith the announcement that he'll be splitting the GOP ticket with Mitt Romney, Lizza's profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is required reading for anyone interested in their choices come November.
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