Elizabeth Dwoskin | Businessweek | 10 November 2011 Alabama has 18% unemployment. But there are lots of difficult, dirty jobs available. New laws forced migrant workers out; now few Americans are prepared to take on their roles. “I have 158 jobs, I need to give them to somebody" Comments Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone | 9 November 2011 History of modern American fiscal policy, from the inflation of the 1970s through to the Bush tax cuts and the Tea Party. Because it's in Rolling Stone it's actually fun to read, and full of stuff to make non-rich people angry Comments Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 8 November 2011 "When I first met Kahneman he was making himself more miserable about his unfinished book than any writer I’d seen. It turned out to be just a warm-up for the misery to come, the start of an extraordinary act of literary masochism" Comments Anthony Shadid | Frontline | 8 November 2011 Hafez al-Assad was a ruthless cynic who ruled Syria with fear and violence. Son Bashar thought he could lighten up, get popular, and hold on to power that way. Wrong. Once you've built a wall of dread, you can't dismantle it Comments Freddie deBoer | New Inquiry | 7 November 2011 Provocative essay on capitalism, Internet. We are raised to compete for status, material rewards. So, as adults, we invest great meaning in the "cultural goods" we acquire. Web amplifies this, defining us by our vacuous consumption Comments Steve Silberman | Fray | 10 November 2011 "My dad was always a punctual man, even in death." Steve Silberman remembers the life and death of his father in this moving and very personal essay Comments Ted Mann | Vanity Fair | 11 November 2011 Intrepid writer goes to Peru in search of hallucinogen ayahuasca. Encounters mysterious shamans and seven-storey pyramid on the Amazon, built by an Englishman inspired by the mind-altering drug. Then he tries it himself Comments Willie Geist | Grantland | 9 November 2011 "Ever since I moved to New York I've been meaning to go to a Columbia University football game. But it's tough to find a wingman for a trip like that. This year, I stopped asking my wife. Instead, I invited my 4-year-old daughter" Comments | 
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