Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 6 February 2012 A very nice guy who makes very nasty ads. This is Larry McCarthy, master of the negative TV ad, now working for Romney Super PAC. Shredded Dukakis. Did for Gingrich in Iowa. What counts is whether it works, not whether it's true Comments Jon Ronson | Guardian | 3 February 2012 Interview with Richard Handl, who did try it at home. "First, he got a saucepan. Into it he put his radioactive elements—the americium and radium. He mixed them up with sulphuric acid and beryllium, and turned on the stove" Comments Tim Parks | NYRB | 1 February 2012 Italy is marked by "a tendency to foment and then thrive on a gap between the official version of events and their actual course, between rules and practice, appearance and reality". So how will change affect Italy, and Italians? Comments Gideon Rachman | FT | 3 February 2012 Conversation about economics and chess. “I’m not a great mathematician, but game theory really clicked for me." Nice anecdotes about Karpov, Fischer. On Europe: "We’re not in the endgame, we’re in the middle-game" Comments Dmitri Trenin | Foreign Affairs | 5 February 2012 Why Russia won't support UN condemnation of Syria's President Assad. Not just solidarity among autocrats. Russia feels that it got burnt over Libya. It doesn't trust the Syrian opposition. And it trusts the US even less Comments Benjamin Wallace | New York | 5 February 2012 Trent Arsenault has never had sex, but he's the father of 15 children – and counting. He's a well-paid tech worker, uses diet and exercise to maximise his sperm count, and he gives away his semen for free. The FDA doesn't like it Comments | 
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