Nick Turse | History News Network/TomDispatch | 4 September 2012 "Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten 'stimulus packages' of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no lasting purpose whatsoever" Comments Maria Konnikova | Literally Psyched | 5 September 2012 In the summer of 1954, 22 boys headed off to summer camp to take part in one of most famous studies in social psychology: The Robbers Cave experiment. Here's what happened, and what it taught us about intergroup relations Comments Peter Pomerantsev | LRB | 5 September 2012 New York's Russian community, full of louche vitality. "The US is the last place where Soviet bonds endure, strengthened by a shared hatred of the system they left behind and informed by a black-market Soviet vision of capitalism" Comments Rania Abouzeid & Jabal Al-Zawya | Time | 4 September 2012 "War is dehumanizing, and civil wars in particular can brutalize a society in ways that fundamentally alter its very nature. Neighbours become enemies; differences become magnified as a means to confirm the otherness of the enemy" Comments Thomas Heise | Berfrois | 4 September 2012 On F Scott Fitzgerald's demise. "At what should have been the height of his novelistic powers in the mid 1930s, he was listless, reckless in his personal affairs, sick with tuberculosis and jaw-droppingly drunk" Comments Geoff Dyer | Guernica | 4 September 2012 Build a boat-like structure, hang it over the Thames, stick a writer inside for a day and a night, see what they come up with. This is what Artangel did, and this is what Geoff Dyer, musing on Heart of Darkness came up with Comments | 
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