Jason Zengerle | GQ | 25 April 2012 Were Romney to beat Obama in November, who would be moving into Karl Rove's old office? Eric Fehrnstrom, he of the Etch a Sketch gaffe. Romney's most trusted adviser. Former tabloid reporter who isn't shy about breaking a few legs Comments Wendell Berry | National Endowment For The Humanities | 24 April 2012 On American industrialisation. In the countryside especially, it has crowded out what was once a "neighborly, kind, and conserving economy", based on affection. Corporations have no emotions—except, perhaps greed. h/t Eric Burnette Comments Emma Williams | Intelligent Life | 25 April 2012 Profile of Srdja Popovic, Serbian peaceful revolutionary. Helped to overthrow Milosevic in 2000. Started NGO that has trained pro-democracy activists in 40 countries. Source of instruction and inspiration for Arab Spring Comments Quinn Zimmerman | Shotgun Shack | 25 April 2012 American aid worker approaches end of two-year stint in Haiti, wonders: What good did I do? All the imported equipment is broken. Society continues as it did before. Nobody says thank you. On the contrary, they hate us Comments Heiner Flassbeck | Yanis Varoufakis | 21 April 2012 Eurozone was a good economic idea, but badly designed. Should have focused on common inflation target, not harmonised public budgets. Fixing this requires all countries to act, not lopsided belt-tightening around the Mediterranean Comments John McWhorter | NYT | 23 April 2012 In defence of texting and email as height of sophistication. They do not signal the end of formal writing, rather the start of a unique innovation. "They are not 'writing' in the sense we are accustomed to. They are fingered speech" Comments | 
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