Robert Kagan | New Republic | 11 January 2012 "Is the United States in decline, as so many seem to believe these days? Or are Americans in danger of committing pre-emptive superpower suicide out of a misplaced fear of their own declining power?" The second, says Kagan Comments Alan Krueger | Center For American Progress | 12 January 2012 Share of income going to top 1% has reached "mindboggling" levels. Middle class has shrunk, economic mobility has fallen. Here's why it happened, what it means, and what to do about it (10-page PDF with additional PowerPoint slides) Comments Adam Lashinsky | Fortune | 18 January 2012 Fascinating look at life inside Apple. "Outside, Apple is revered. Inside, it is cultish." So obsessed with secrecy that many employees are hired without even knowing what their roles will be. And that's just the start of it Comments Aleksandar Hemon | Guernica | 16 January 2012 Bosnia is a society shattered by war, its broken parts redivided and bargained over by Bosniak, Croat and Serb alike. Segregation and teaching of ethnic identity begins early, as this superb essay describes Comments Julian Sanchez | Cato Institute | 18 January 2012 "No matter how bad last season's crops were, witch burnings are a poor policy response." Outstanding essay questions effect of digital piracy, need for government regulation. Conclusion? There is no dire, pressing threat to industry Comments Adam Curtis | BBC | 18 January 2012 Typically provocative blog post compares West of today with Soviet Union of 1980s. Clearly many differences but similarities Curtis finds are striking – disillusion with politics, economics, corrupt technocrats, vacuous society Comments Ross Anderson | The Atlantic | 19 January 2012 Fascinating. Interview with Tim Maudlin, a philosopher at forefront of a whole new field – the philosophy of cosmology. Where science runs out of answers – what is time, what happened before the Big Bang – is where his work starts Comments Mark Kram | Sports Illustrated | 17 January 2012 In honour of Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday, SI republishes this memorable piece from 1975, written after the Thrilla in Manila. "Man, I hit him with punches that'd bring down the walls of a city," said a defeated Joe Frazier Comments | 
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