The so-called Fat Leonard scandal is the US Navy's worst corruption scandal and recently allegations of corruption have spread to the Australian Navy. How the post-Tiananmen Square era issued in an era of large scale looting of China's public assets by officials, family members and their cronies in the private sector. Remembering Robert Silvers, founding editor of the New York Review of Books . Silvers died on Monday aged 87. He spoke to Phillip Adams in June 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the NYRB.