Louis Menand | New Yorker | 12 March 2012 The key to understanding Mitt Romney is that he thinks like a businessman. His basic unit of analysis is the firm, not the individual. Firms should grow or die. At the individual level, the only thing that counts is productivity Comments Eric Michael Johnson | Times Higher Education | 15 March 2012 "Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit on your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning." Only now do we realise the full impact of 1920s parenting advice Comments Carmen Reinhart | Bloomberg | 11 March 2012 "Given that deficit reduction usually involves highly unpopular spending cuts and/or tax increases, a 'stealthier' financial-repression tax may be a more politically palatable alternative." And one that may last for many years Comments Elaine Blair | NYRB | 9 March 2012 Postwar novelists—Updike, Mailer—were male triumphalists. Their successors—Franzen, Shteyngart—have overcorrected. They want women to like them. Their men are losers. Houllebecq is different. He doesn't want to be liked Comments Nicholas Schmidle | New Yorker | 12 March 2012 Gregarious, smooth-talking polyglot. Ran legitimate air freight company, ferrying food and peacekeepers into world's trouble spots. Expanded into arms. Supplied both sides in Angolan civil war. Not cruel; just utterly amoral Comments David Wolman | Nature | 14 March 2012 "When you get your brain split, it doesn't grow back together." Nonetheless, about a dozen individuals from 1960 on chose to undergo this radical surgery. And became legends of neuroscience. This is what they taught us Comments Mark Bowden | Atlantic | 14 March 2012 Last year, an ex-jockey with superior negotiating skills and a mind for maths took three casinos in Atlantic City for $15m. And it wasn't by cheating, any other dubious activity or merely by striking it lucky. Here's how he did it Comments Jonah Lehrer | WSJ | 9 March 2012 "Creativity is not magic, and there's no such thing as a creative type. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. Anyone can learn to be creative." Here's how Comments | 
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