Paul Krugman | NYT | 24 April 2012 US central bank has gone to great lengths to rescue the financial system, but done far less for workers. The Fed chief is a fine economist who previously advocated strong action for situations like this. So why isn't he acting now? Comments Mona Eltahawy | Foreign Policy | 23 April 2012 A call to arms. "Arab societies hate women. Name me an Arab country, and I'll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend" Comments Garry Wills | NYRB | 24 April 2012 The Vatican shows its moral collapse by attacking American nuns. "The bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them" Comments Paul Mason | BBC | 24 April 2012 Helpful backgrounder to eurozone's current economic and political turmoil. Holiday from the crisis is ending; ECB's actions averted a "heart attack", but left them nursing an "economic cancer". What will the politicians do next? Comments Michael Kinsley | Bloomberg | 20 April 2012 "Sure. Lovely. Let's reward success. But Romney seems to think that success is self-defining. Anyone who has done well deserves what he or she has got. Let’s add up just a few of the ways in which this is not necessarily true" Comments EO Wilson | Harvard | 20 April 2012 Harvard biologist tackles evolution of culture in a monumental essay. Captivating throughout. "Rich and seemingly boundless as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition" Comments | 
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