Mat Honan | Wired | 6 August 2012 "In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed." Honan's Google account was compromised and deleted; his Twitter account spued out racist tweets; and all data was erased from his iPad, iPhone and MacBook. Here's how Comments Amartya Sen | New Republic | 2 August 2012 Masterful essay assesses history of European integration, and the political and economic challenges facing single currency. "It is difficult to see austerity as a soundly reasoned economic solution to the European malaise" Comments Mike Marqusee | Mike Marqusee | 4 August 2012 "The boosterism is relentless. Commentators rush to squeeze the events and results into preferred narratives and to draw an apposite moral lesson. These lessons are invariably platitudes." So here's a different interpretation Comments Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 6 August 2012 On the history and meaning of Mormonism. "Joseph Smith’s strange faith has become a denomination within the bigger creed of commerce. This gospel of prosperity is the one American faith that will never fail" Comments Richard Cockett | Literary Review | 7 August 2012 Why North Korea is The Impossible State, and still exists. "The Kim family has constructed a state that is so ghastly that everyone else fears the consequences of its falling apart more than they look forward to its demise" Comments Aimee Liu | LA Review Of Books | 5 August 2012 Homage to Graham Greene. He cared. "The facts in Greene's fiction resonate not just historically, but also philosophically and theologically. Political exigencies within the narrative become prisms for personal choice" Comments | 
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