John Cassidy | New Yorker | 16 May 2012 Cassidy casts his eye over impending Facebook IPO: "It’s the fulfillment of the dreams of the nineties—and a reminder of their potentially fatal attraction." Has a website that expands at astronomic pace just got to be worth money? Comments Malcolm Bull | LRB | 16 May 2012 On the ethical problems of climate change. Should the well-being of future generations take precedence over our own? Are we responsible for the excesses of past generations? All over the world, or just our own compatriots? Comments Joseph Heath | Walrus | 15 May 2012 In Canada, rich and poor sit side by side waiting for treatment in the local public clinic. A good thing. "The health care system constitutes a point of forced solidarity." What's the US equivalent? The courtroom, perhaps? Comments Andrew Bacevich | Harper's | 16 May 2012 Against Robert Kagan, and his "Copernican interpretation of contemporary history": America the sun around which all else orbits. His new book, "The World America Made", is "a slim volume of mythopoeia decked out in analytic drag" Comments AC Grayling | Barnes & Noble Review | 9 May 2012 Grayling comments on Michael Sandel's new book, which explores corrosive effects of assigning a price to everything. Where should we draw the line between the marketable and the unmarketable? What things should remain priceless? Comments Michael Paterniti | National Geographic | 15 May 2012 Hong Kong is in flux once more. "Now a Chinese special administrative region, it is being remade yet again under diamond pressure. And increasingly this city of over seven million inhabitants floats on a growing sense of unease" Comments | 
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