Michael Spence | Project Syndicate | 19 June 2012 Nobel laureate on restoring stability and growth in eurozone. "What, then, of the much-discussed conflict between austerity and growth? I believe that it is based on a fairly serious misunderstanding." Here's why Comments Andrew Cohen | Atlantic | 18 June 2012 Report from ADX-Florence: "The prison is a place of unspeakable cruelty and state-sponsored wickedness, run by officials who ignore their own policies and revel in humiliating prisoners by depriving them of basic human dignities" Comments Hannah Bloch | National Geographic | 18 June 2012 We think we know the story. Polynesian settlers arrived in 800, built statues, cut down forests. Soil erosion ruined the land. Society collapsed into war, poverty, cannibalism. But what if it wasn't like that at all? Comments Alex Christofi | Prospect | 19 June 2012 Christofi joins the Slovenian philosopher, his beer-drinking disciples and a few detractors for a 24-hour intellectual love-in cum book launch. The fun starts with a talk on Hegel, before Zizek himself takes the floor Comments Frank Viviano | California | 18 June 2012 A journey to Mayan ruins in Guatemala goes awry. "A band of heavily armed men suddenly erupted from the jungle, taking positions in the center of the road. Cloth bags with eye holes masked their faces." The drug gangs had arrived Comments Giles Milton | Surviving History | 18 June 2012 Brief excursion to January 1917. Britain is desperate to draw America into the war on its side. Germany is also looking for allies. When an encrypted German message is intercepted it turns out to be just what London needed Comments | 
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