Sean Flynn | GQ | 18 July 2012 Gripping retelling by survivors of the day a year ago when a heavily armed man dressed as a police officer came to their youth summer camp and started shooting. Almost 80 died in what was the deadliest attack in Norway since WWII Comments Steve Silberman | Neurotribes | 16 July 2012 No doubt you understand all about the placebo effect, but how about it's evil twin the nocebo effect? Instead of making patients feel better, it makes them feel worse. And can even kill. Here's what you need to know Comments Norman Ornstein | Atlantic | 17 July 2012 Should US follow Australia's example and make voting mandatory? Yes, says Ornstein. It would enlarge the electorate in the centre ground, increasing the sway of the "persuadable middle" and reducing influence of ideological fringes Comments Dylan Matthews | Washington Post | 16 July 2012 Helpful backgrounder on the big issue for the American economy. In plain English, with some simple charts. What is the "fiscal cliff"? How big is it? What would the short-term and long-term effects of falling off it be? Comments William Pfaff | NYRB | 16 July 2012 For America, the conscript army – the draft – had its uses, and unintended benefits, but it was destroyed by Vietnam. When war ended, the army demanded an all-professional force. It got it. This had unintended consequences too Comments Jonathan Rée | New Humanist | 14 July 2012 Fine review of French intellectual Bruno Latour's On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods. In which he argues religion is more intelligent than most assume. And there's nothing in it that should alarm scientists or atheists Comments | 
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