Anonymous | Spiegel | 20 February 2012 Interview with Kenneth Rogoff on Greece, future of euro. "To make Greece competitive, wages would have to be halved. That is impossible to implement politically, but without a steep wage cut, the economy will continue to stagnate" Comments Chris Nashawaty | Wired | 17 February 2012 A man becomes so convinced he is Samson, he tries to pull down the Western Wall. A woman persuades herself she is the Virgin Mary, even heads to Bethlehem to find her child, Jesus. Why can Jerusalem cause such strange behaviour? Comments Masha Gessen | Daily Beast | 20 February 2012 Book extract. "He has created his own mythology of a child of post-siege Leningrad, a mean, hungry, impoverished place that bred mean, hungry, ferocious children." In fact, he was relatively well-off. But still mean and ferocious Comments Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 14 February 2012 Gulf between fossil fuels and alternatives is huge in many ways. We cannot simply shift sources of energy. Instead, there'll be a transition. And that will involve large-scale exploitation of alternative fossil fuels Comments Robert Reich | Robert Reich | 17 February 2012 "Suddenly, manufacturing is back – at least on the American election trail. But don’t be fooled. The real issue isn’t how to get manufacturing back. It’s how to get good jobs and good wages back. They aren’t at all the same thing" Comments Roger Moorhouse | History Today | 16 February 2012 "Speer’s planned rebuilding of Berlin is too readily dismissed as a Nazi pipedream; a still-born manifestation of Hitler’s architectural fantasies thankfully confined to the drawing board." In fact, it was central to Nazi ideology Comments | 
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