Jonathan Cohn | New Republic | 9 November 2011 Neuroscience uncovers an ugly truth: "Neglect of very young children does not merely stunt their emotional development. It changes the architecture of their brains." Important implications for battle against poverty (Ungated for us) Comments Harold Bloom | NYT | 12 November 2011 Bloom on magnificent form in this most elegant evisceration of Mormonism (old and new) and Mitt Romney. But why stop there? Bloom doesn't, sliding the knife into Southern Baptists and wider American religion and politics too Comments Steven Brint | LA Review of Books | 15 November 2011 Superb, highly readable essay on state of higher education. Focuses on America, but debate and tensions over access, standards, goals and aspirations will be familiar to readers in Britain and elsewhere Comments Naomi Klein | Nation | 9 November 2011 "Climate change detonates the ideological scaffolding on which contemporary conservatism rests." To resolve the ecological crisis will require radical overhaul of free market capitalism. Outstanding essay explains why Comments Jon Wertheim & David Epstein | Sports Illustrated | 15 November 2011 And this is what you should read if you want to know about the most explosive scandal in the history of US college sports. And why one of those whose careers it ended was "arguably the most unfireable person in all of sports" Comments Sam Harris | Sam Harris | 5 November 2011 "It is overwhelmingly likely that some of you will become the targets of violence in the future. The purpose of this essay is to help prepare you for it." So begins a masterful blogpost that explains the essentials of self-defence Comments Adam Nicholson | National Gegraphic | 15 November 2011 "No other book has given more to the English-speaking world. You don't have to be a Christian to hear the power of those words—simple in vocabulary, cosmic in scale, stately in their rhythms, deeply emotional in their impact" Comments Jane Kramer | New Yorker | 14 November 2011 Pursuit of wild food has become fashionable. But wrap up, and take care. Writer goes foraging with the experts for wild asparagus, beach horseradish, orchid roots with more protein than filet de boeuf. And much, much more Comments | 
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