Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 23 January 2012 More than six million people are under "correctional supervision" in the US – more than were in Stalin's Gulags. Why so many? This superb account suggests there's been a serious failure of common sense and humanity Comments Jon Lackman | Wired | 23 January 2012 Story of UX, hacker-artists who protect, restore unloved French artefacts. Turning the whole city, above and below ground into a canvas, "its members say they can access every last government building, every narrow telecom tunnel" Comments Olivier Roy | Washington Post | 21 January 2012 Islamists in the Arab world are benefiting from a democratisation they didn't trigger. Ghost of Islamic totalitarian state is raised, but is unlikely prospect. Islamists have changed. Political realism rules; Turkey's AKP inspires Comments Ingrid Rowland | NYRB | 23 January 2012 Sunk ship a metaphor for Italy—or a Greek tragedy. "A man, no better or worse than most of us, makes a mistake and thereby unleashes a cataclysm, and we look on the resultant disaster with a cathartic mix of pity and fear" Comments Michael Idov | New York | 22 January 2012 Inside Russia's anti-Putin protest movement. Its leadership apparently drawn exclusively from the editorial staff of glossy magazines. Hipsters, in short. Plotting against the Kremlin in chic little French restaurants Comments Lee Billings | Popular Mechanics | 23 January 2012 In 1859 a major solar storm, the "Carrington Event", hit Earth. Another came in 1921. What if one struck tomorrow? "If a Carrington Event happened right now it probably wouldn’t be a wake-up alarm—it would be a goodnight call" Comments | 
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