From Doublethink, the Bushies strike back: John McCormack on the administration’s alumni two years on; Elizabeth Nolan Brown on how pickup artists and social conservatives hook up; and Alexandra Squitieri on our fascination with super-sized families. From The Atlantic Monthly, Google knows that its search function is only as valuable as the information it helps you find, a principal source of which is the beleaguered news business; that’s why the company assigned some of its top thinkers to the puzzle of how to make journalism pay — their answers may revolutionize the media. Putting a price on words: When news is search-driven, audience-targeted and everywhere, what’s a story worth? The Authentic and the Absurd: Andrew Potter on the case of Banksy. From Lapham's Quarterly, Salman Rushdie on The Composite Artist. Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. Chris Jones on the Tea Party attack on Roger Ebert on Twitter. Trinie Dalton reviews The Tanners by Robert Walser. After the Xinjiang protests: Nick Holdstock on too many cops, not enough Internet. An article on Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, authors and friends. Hillary Happy: She has lived the most extraordinary American life; now she lives in extraordinary exile — from the two men she is most loyal to, from politics, from controversy, and it has freed her. From Prospect, Big brother’s getting bigger: “Intelligent” software is making CCTV more effective, but would you want it watching you?; George Orwell, patron saint of hacks: No argument can fail to be enhanced by an Orwell quote — that's why he's become the authority of first resort for people who don't know what they're talking about.
