Hans-Jürgen Schlamp | Spiegel | 30 July 2012 Sicily is bust. But don't expect action from the regional assembly. It rarely meets. Most members don't show up when it does. They do, however, draw salaries of €10-15,000 a month. All 90 of them. And their 400 assistants Comments Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 27 July 2012 "Athletes are envisioned as representing their nation, and the abstraction, that everyone now has a nation-state, covers up a lot of cultural conflict that besets the Games." Here's a look at some tensions that do (and don't) arise Comments Adam Kirsch | New Republic | 12 July 2012 Scientists have struggled since Darwin to reconcile art with evolution. How does art help survival? Some categorise it as a form of sexual display for attracting mates. But its main function may be in prompting us to think Comments Milton Ezrati | National Interest | 30 July 2012 Much thinking about Europe's economic difficulties presents the alternatives as a binary choice between growth or budget discipline. But could there be a third way? Ezrati explains how such an approach could work Comments Joyce Carol Oates | NYRB | 26 July 2012 Claire Tomalin's new biography of Charles Dickens reviewed. "If Dickens’s prose fiction has 'defects' — excesses of melodrama, sentimentality, contrived plots, and manufactured happy endings — these are the defects of his era" Comments Eric Auld | Thought Catalog | 23 July 2012 Eric Auld is 26, with a Master's degree in English. Looking for a full-time job in a major US city. And getting nowhere fast. So he puts a fake job ad on Craigslist to get a sense of the competition out there (h/t Daniel Lippman) Comments | 
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