- George Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram’ Text of the famous diplomatic dispatch from Moscow by the architect of US policy towards the USSR. Kennan was pondering how best to deal with Stalin. His text is Interesting because we are now wondering how best to deal with Putin.
- What I’ve learned from 10,000 nights in the theatre Michael Billington reflects on his long career as the Guardian’s Theatre Critic. Lovely piece.
- Economic Man is dead, and not before time Paul Collier has written a thoughtful (and not terribly regretful) obituary in the TLS.
- The one-traffic-light rural town with some of the fastest broadband in the US Fascinating piece by Sue Halpern. Confirms the hunch that supplying fast broadband to a community is a great way to revive and empower it. And it was all done by local effort.
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