Culture

In a superb blow-by-blow examination, the Boston Globe’s Farah Stockman examines how an energy sector company with enough resources – in this case Schlumberger – gets around Iran sanctions and runs a drill in that country packing enough radioactive power for a "dirty bomb."

Denis McShane, the British Labour MP whose sober cross-parliamentary review of anti-Semitism in 2006 shook up that country’s establishment, extends his sights to Europe in Newsweek. As always, his conclusions are all the more shocking for being grounded in facts and restraint.