Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 20 October 2011 Excellent essay. The liberal, democratic values we hold dear aren't so rooted in Christianity as we might think. So any weakening of Christianity in Europe won't erode those values. But crass alarmism about Islam might Comments Will Self | Guardian | 21 October 2011 "Some time over the winter of 2010-11 I began to be gorged with blood." So begins a very powerful, absorbing piece in which Self reflects on the rare disease he inherited. Treatment involves weekly removal of two pints of his blood Comments Christopher Hitchens | Slate | 21 October 2011 Gaddafi squatted like a toad on the lives of the Libyan people. His obscene regime showed that it would rather destroy society and the state than surrender power. But his killing was a squalid lynching. Better he went to the Hague Comments Zeeya Merali | Nature | 19 October 2011 Could string theory, the rarefied, mathematical "theory of everything", have much to teach us about the physics of ordinary matter? A pair of intellectual misfits hope to prove so. "Maybe string theory is the new calculus" Comments Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 20 October 2011 Extraordinary story from outback Australia of two-man attempt to join the First World War. On the German-Turkish side. It ended badly, of course. A fascinating slice of Australian history, not without resonance today Comments Peter Stothard | TLS Blog | 21 October 2011 Here's a fight in the making. Stothard reprints his own damning review of Hughes's history of Rome, and demands that the author reply to it. "Most history books contain errors. But Hughes's account has an extraordinary number" Comments | 
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