Andrew Solomon | New Yorker | 8 May 2006 Go back five years to this New Yorker portrait of a country in Gaddafi's awful grip. “He has to go. This colonel has eaten the best years of my life, poisoned my soul and my existence, murdered the people I loved. I hate him" Comments Michael Mehaffy & Nikos Salingaros | Guernica | 19 October 2011 Why do architects so often build monstrous things and destroy beautiful ones? They view the world differently. They're trained to prefer industrial forms and surfaces over natural ones. They see buildings, not landscapes Comments George Dyson | European | 17 October 2011 Historian of science tackles big questions about ethics, us, and the advance of computing power. "On a fundamental level, we have to ask ourselves: Do we need human intelligence? And what happens if we fail to exercise it?" Comments Michael Bernhard | Foreign Affairs | 16 October 2011 On Bismarck as pioneer of "managed democracy", or "competitive authoritarianism". Practised now in Russia, Venezuela, China. Some competition allowed between social groups. But a deep state holds real power Comments Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 18 October 2011 We all know stories get embellished. Now we know a bit more about how and why it happens. New research shows that the opinion of other people can alter our personal memories, even over a relatively short period of time Comments Michael Ratner & Michael Steven Smith | Guernica | 17 October 2011 New book sheds light on complex CIA plot. Presidential adviser Walt Rostow wrote: It marks the passing of another of the aggressive, romantic revolutionaries and shows the soundness of our "preventive medicine" assistance to Bolivia Comments | 
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