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What Is The Value Of Unique? | Izabella Kaminska | FT Alphaville | 27th August 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Bold, esoteric think-piece about the role played by scarcity in the production and perception of value, and what happens to value judgements if 3D printing enables perfect reproductions of, say, the M...
Two Minds On Syria | George Packer | New Yorker | 27th August 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Imagined dialogue rehearsing the arguments for and against American bombing of Syria. “What do we do if Assad retaliates against Israel or Turkey? Or if he uses nerve gas somewhere else?” Nicely argue...
The Real Threat To Our Way Of Life | Simon Jenkins | Guardian | 27th August 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
“Terrorism and national security are wholly distinct concepts. Terrorism involves a violent incident. It merely kills people and wrecks buildings. It acquires power only by generating an exaggerated r...
Bo Xilai: Last Of A Nefarious Trio | Thomas Kellogg | LA Review Of Books | 26th August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Review of Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel, by Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang, on the rise and fall of Bo Xilai. Useful background about Bo’s policies in Chongqing (he borrowed recklessly to fund public se...
Cockpit Automation | Nick Valéry | Economist | 26th August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Why we’re not going to get pilotless planes, even when we get driverless cars. Because the pilot is needed, not so much to fly the plane, as to monitor the automated systems that do so, and, very occa...
Assad’s Cold Calculation: Poison Gas | Christoph Reuter & Hans Hoyng | Spiegel | 26th August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Syrian leader has been introducing the use of chemical weapons gradually: one hundred or more killed in March; a thousand or more on August 21st. He is testing the reaction in the West, before going o...
Ian Buruma: East And West | Alec Ash | Five Books | 26th August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Interview in which Buruma recommends and discusses “five Western perspectives of the East”: Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys, A Passage To India by E.M. Forster, The Inland Sea by Donald Richie, The Hidd...
Pages From William Vollmann’s FBI File | Harper's | 26th August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Vollmann’s account of being a suspect in the Unabomber manhunt is paywalled, but these pages from his FBI profile make compelling reading. “Vollmann has experienced much in his brief life. He reported...
On The Thomas Pynchon Trail | Boris Kachka | New York | 25th August 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Profile of the publicity-shy author, pegged to the release of his latest novel, Bleeding Edge, a detective story set in New York, where Pynchon “hides in plain sight, on the Upper West Side, with a fa...
The Smugglers’ Prey | Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 25th August 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Dismaying portrait of life among Tamils on the Jaffna Peninsula in north-eastern Sri Lanka, four years after the Tamil Tiger army was wiped out by the Sinhalese, ending 20 years of intermittent civil ...
