Geoffrey Hosking | OUP Blog | 4 May 2012 "They fear both external invasion and internal subversion. Their frontiers are very long and open. They have suffered invasion many times. Russians will support almost any regime which offers them security from attack" Comments Horace Dediu and Dirk Schmidt | Asymco | 4 May 2012 Comparative study of Ikea's and Apple's retail strategies. "Both operations are positioned around a job-to-be-done that has a high priority in people’s life". At Apple, learn about technology. At Ikea, furnish your home Comments James Nolan | Hedgehog Review | 30 April 2012 MIT professor discusses social networks, and social robots. "People feel that they are not being heard, that no one is listening. They have a fantasy that finally, in a machine, they will have a nonjudgmental companion" Comments Ian Sinclair & Jennifer Hayashi Danns | New Left Project | 3 May 2012 Former lap dancer speaks out against the industry she left. "Lap dancing is just an effect of a society that does not truly value women and, as hard as it may be to accept, a society in which women do not value themselves" Comments Pachiguy | Spike Japan | 4 May 2012 Rust-porn ramble through Mishima's Tokyo: "Unshaven, unshowered Tokyo, Tokyo with its make-up off last thing at night, a place of battered plastic bottles strapped with green duct tape and nylon string around a lamppost" Comments Wilfred McClay | First Things | 24 April 2012 "Like other key words of American political and cultural discourse, the term liberalism suffers from a frustrating, even maddening, degree of ambiguity and imprecision in the way it is used." Here's how it's meaning has shifted Comments | 
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