Paul Mason | Scribd | 31 January 2012 Compelling tour d'horizon of political, social, economic turmoil. Is this a "50-year moment" where crisis leads to protectionism, economic nationalism, de-globalisation? Or could it be something much bigger – a 500-year event? Comments Frank Rich | New York | 29 January 2012 Mitt Romney may be a political hack's idea of an electable conservative president. But many voters have other ideas, certainly if South Carolina is anything to go by. So, who is Mitt? What drives him and what does he care about? Comments Jay Kirk | GQ | 31 January 2012 Remarkable story of Sam Brown, who suffered unimaginable burns in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. To alleviate the pain, he eventually turned to Virtual Reality. And discovered a video game more effective at killing pain than morphine Comments Sven Boll et al | Spiegel | 30 January 2012 Supposed rescue plans for Greece will never work. Greece isn't illiquid. It's insolvent. Lending more money will only make things worse. What's needed is a shock wave of defaults and bankruptcies. But who dares say so? Comments Philip Hensher | Guardian | 29 January 2012 Beyond genre. "Anyone can write a plot in which crooks kidnap each other to extract each other's kidneys. It takes an Elmore Leonard to conceive of one in which the kidneys are sold back to their indignant original owner" Comments Namit Arora | 3 Quarks Daily | 30 January 2012 Writer recalls visit to Varanasi, India, one of seven holy sites of the Hindus. Short history of the city, followed by reflections on the traditional cremations that still take place daily along banks of the Ganges Comments | 
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