David Luban | Boston Review | 6 June 2012 On President Obama, drones and just war theory. We're told he personally approves targets and is a student of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. So do the arguments of these Christian writers support the morality of Obama's actions? Comments Michael Hastings | Rolling Stone | 7 June 2012 Three years ago, a 23-year-old American soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he’s a crucial pawn in negotiations to end the war. But not everyone, Taliban or American, wants to do a deal Comments David Graeber | Baffler | 4 June 2012 Futurologists thought we would have flying cars, force-fields, tractor beams, teleportation, antigravity sleds, immortality drugs and space colonies. But the only technologies to have advanced since the 1970s are those of simulation Comments Shadi Hamid | Foreign Policy | 7 June 2012 Who is Mohamed Morsi, the man from the Muslim Brotherhood eyeing Egypt's presidency? He's a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who views US society with apparent contempt. He also references "The Deer Hunter" and has two American children Comments Susan Berfield | Businessweek | 7 June 2012 Odyssey Marine Exploration is an American deep-sea treasure hunting company. It recently lost a legal battle over a haul of silver coins recovered from a Spanish wreck. But Odyssey's boss is unworried. More, much more, is to come Comments Anonymous | World Policy Institute | 5 June 2012 Conversation with Garry Kasparov, on chess, politics, Putin. In chess there are fixed rules and uncertain outcomes. In Russian politics, opposite is true: "The outcome is known before, and the rules can change at any time" Comments | 
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