Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 26 July 2012 Malik is sceptical about the Olympics as an instrument of social good or tool of economic development. And he dislikes the "militarisation" and censorship. But still. It's all about those moments of supreme athletic achievement Comments Bill Browder | Open Democracy | 25 July 2012 Get past the opening few paragraphs and this is a fascinating, shocking account about the price of doing business in Russia and tangling with oligarchs and the Kremlin. Written by investment fund boss who's exposed huge corruption Comments Kurt Eichenwald | Vanity Fair | 25 July 2012 Compelling, if harsh, takedown of the technology giant – "a high-tech equivalent of a Detroit car-maker" – and its CEO Steve Ballmer. The iPhone alone now generates more revenue than all of Microsoft. What went wrong? Comments Julian Savulescu & Ingmar Persson | Philosophy Now | 22 July 2012 The case for moral bioenhancement. "We have radically transformed our social and natural environments by technology, while our moral dispositions have remained unchanged. We must now consider applying technology to our own nature" Comments Ivan Krastev | Eurozine / Transit | 26 July 2012 Lessons for European politicians from collapse of Soviet Union. "The German poet-dissident Wolf Biermann wrote many years ago: 'I can only love what I am also free to leave.' Today's European policy-makers have forgotten this truth" Comments Colin Dickey | Lapham's Quarterly | 19 July 2012 While we wait for science to catch up, we still cling to magic because it's the only way we can tell ourselves that the world makes sense. Perhaps this explains why a belief in sympathetic magic continues in our hyperrationalist age Comments | 
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