Edward Luce | FT | 30 March 2012 Outstanding essay looks at America's economic and political malaise. A country where the Walton family is worth as much as bottom 150 million. "Brain power is America’s future. But it doesn’t always appear too cerebral in practice" Comments Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 2 April 2012 "By 2006 Macau's casino revenues had surpassed those of Las Vegas, until then the world's largest gambling town. Today, the quantity of money passing through Macau exceeds that of Las Vegas five times over." Here's how it happened Comments Eric Klinenberg et al | Guardian | 30 March 2012 "During the past half-century, our species has embarked on a remarkable social experiment. For the first time, great numbers of people – at all ages, in all places, of every political persuasion – have begun living alone" Comments Stephen Marche | Esquire | 28 March 2012 The old are eating the young. They may not have set out to do so, but economic and social policy has been rigged to serve their interests. It's unaffordable socialism for the old; virulently purified capitalism for the young Comments Neal Ascherson | NYRB | 31 March 2012 If you know terrible things have been happening in Central Africa for the past couple of decades, not to say the past couple of centuries, but you can't get the whole story straight in your head, this piece does it for you Comments Andrew Sullivan | Newsweek | 1 April 2012 Sullivan laments state of Christianity in America. Where secular, for many, has come to mean atheist and "the ability to be faithful in a religious space and reasonable in a political one has atrophied before our eyes" Comments Jessica Grose | Slate | 2 April 2012 John Wallace was sitting quietly on a log in Yellowstone national park when he was attacked by a bear. His body was later found half-eaten. This is the story of how blame was assigned, and a killer grizzly caught Comments CS Lewis | Letters Of Note | 3 April 2012 Text of letter CS Lewis sent to a fan in 1956. Contains memorable advice on writing, correct use of English. Remember: "Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean 'More people died' don't say 'Mortality rose'" Comments | 
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