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A new weapon

Thomas Pistorius (Erasmus): The Rhetoric of Investment Theory: The Story of Statistics and Predictability. Newspaper closes in Hungary, and Hungarians see government’s hand. Andrew Kramer on a new weapon in Russia’s arsenal, and it’s inflatable. Pound slumps to 168-year low. Rebecca Nelson on the dark humor of Tammy Duckworth, Iraq war hero and gun control advocate. Evangelical magazine Christianity Today publishes scathing anti-Trump editorial. Why Donald Trump’s campaign could prove to be the death of the Christian Right. No, Trump hasn’t destroyed the Christian Right: The Republican nominee simply exposes the movement’s true aim — preservation of white patriarchy. Meet Guy Sims Fitch, a fake writer invented by the US government. At 15, Malcolm Gladwell ran a zine called Ad Hominem: “our rule was you had to attack someone personally”.