Benjamin Hale | NYT | 12 August 2012 On Rawls, fairness, Romney and Obama. "Where the veil of ignorance offers a test for fairness from an impersonal, universal point of view, the veil of opulence offers a test for fairness from the first-person, partial point of view" Comments Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Telegraph | 12 August 2012 Reflections on economic crisis. "Much of the debt will have to be written off. Whether this is done by inflation (1945-1952) or default (1930-1934) will be the great political battle of the decade. Pick your side. Pick your history" Comments James Traub | Foreign Policy | 13 August 2012 "Washington is full of people who are very self-confident and very impatient, people who seem to be clad in sandpaper. Almost all, however, are white men; Susan Rice is one of the few black women who belong to this particular club" Comments Mark Kitto | Prospect | 8 August 2012 "Deng promised the Chinese people material wealth they hadn’t known for centuries on condition that they never again asked for political change. The Party said: 'Trust us and everything will be alright.'" But 20 years on, it isn't Comments Rowan Moore | Observer | 12 August 2012 Book excerpt. "It is easy to see the absurdity of a belief in the healing power of masonry – it is a superstition, animism – but people fall for it again and again and they are not entirely wrong to do so." Here's why Comments Benjamin Wallace | New York | 12 August 2012 "In the Kardashian world, everything is cross-branded and co-promoted—tweets may be sponsored, products placed. There’s a sense that everything is for sale, and nothing should go un-monetized." She's the "world's first human avatar" Comments | 
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