Michael Hirsh | National Journal | 21 November 2011 Today America struggles with record numbers of long-term unemployed and a dwindling middle class. But this isn't a sudden effect of the financial crisis – it's the result of three decades of short-sighted economic policy. Here's why Comments Joshua Davis | Wired | 22 November 2011 Astonishing story of successful sales exec who ran bizarre paramilitary vigilante squad. His team included a 360lb postal worker, a lookalike Playboy bunny and a weapons expert. Together they hunted down Ponzi scheme fraudsters Comments David Frum | New York | 20 November 2011 A disillusioned Republican writes. "In the face of dwindling upward mobility and stagnating middle-class wages, my party’s economic ideas sometimes seem to have shrunk to just one: More tax cuts for the very highest earners" Comments James Meek | LRB | 22 November 2011 Notebook from a country unravelling. Only businesses thriving are pawn shops and precious metal buyers. Economy is reverting to the 1950s. Get food from relatives in the countryside, money from relatives aboard Comments Kevin Kelleher | Reuters | 22 November 2011 800 million users. An IPO looming. Even a Facebook phone is rumoured. But it has a problem too: It's ruining sharing. "Simply put, Facebook is making the quantity of content more important than the quality." It may be a cardinal sin Comments Laura Weed | Philosophy Now | 16 November 2011 Useful backgrounder on complex subject – the nature of the mind, consciousness and perception. Can you distinguish verificationism from behaviourism and scientific reductionism? No? Don't worry, this should set you straight Comments Mattathias Schwartz | New Yorker | 21 November 2011 Creator of Occupy Wall Street is a 69-year-old who lives on a farm outside Vancouver. Born in Estonia; grew up in Australia where he designed computer war games for the military. Principal collaborator hasn't seen him for four years Comments Andrew Ferguson | Weekly Standard | 21 November 2011 Revisiting George Harrison, 10 years after his death from cancer. A man of two halves. Good George was a modest fellow, devoted to spiritualism and Krishna. Bad George had an "heroic capacity for cocaine, brandy, and adultery" Comments | 
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