Stephen Walt | National Interest | 25 October 2011 "The era when the United States could create and lead a political, economic and security order in virtually every part of the world is coming to an end. Which raises the obvious question: What should we do about it?" Excellent essay Comments Pankaj Mishra | LRB | 26 October 2011 On Niall Ferguson, popular neo-imperialist historian. Books full of "bluster about the white man’s burden", provocative counterfactuals, voluminous footnotes. No attempt to understand Asian history. Cartoonish view of modern China Comments Farhad Manjoo | Slate | 25 October 2011 Review of new biography of former Apple supremo. Some great yarns and a corrective to recent hagiography, although book isn't as hostile as this headline suggests. For Manjoo, the enterprise does have one key failing though Comments Stephen Marche | NYT | 21 October 2011 A smart and funny rebuttal to the film, Anonymous. And much more as the author neatly uses his anti-Oxfordian argument to tackle today’s conspiracy theorists Comments Anonymous | Notes From Behind The Blockade | 24 October 2011 "If the Israelis water cannon you, go to the front of the boat. They generally target the engine”. The whole blog is worth reading. Covers everyday life in Gaza, from the viewpoint of a foreign human-rights observer Comments Dubravka Ugresic | Paris Review | 17 October 2011 Popularised by Hilton, after an executive saw miniatures of whisky on a Thai Airways flight in 1974 and suggested putting them in guest rooms. "For many a lonely businessman, the minibar is a symbolic substitute for home" Comments | 
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