Alexis Goldstein | n+1 | 30 April 2012 Everyone who joins an investment bank plans to make a fortune, get out, and do something else. They rarely succeed. "The culture of Wall Street is pervasive and contagious. Before I occupied Wall Street, Wall Street occupied me" Comments Jonathan Chait | New York | 29 April 2012 On the chairman of House Budget Committee, designer of Republican budget. Rose seemingly without trace. All but unchallengeable by Romney, other senior Republicans. Democrats are having a job too. But his plan is not moderate Comments Colin McSwiggen | Jacobin | 23 April 2012 "Chairs suck. All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair, because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are bad." They damage our bodies. And rose to popularity for worst of reasons - status, power, control Comments Rebecca Solnit | Guernica | 30 April 2012 Broad discussion with Occupy movement's intellectual figurehead David Graeber. From Islamic origins of free market ideology to virtues of anarchism. "I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism" Comments Tom Vanderbilt | Wilson Quarterly | 30 April 2012 What can the history of the telephone teach us about effects of technology on society? To find out Vanderbilt takes us back to a time when the “talking telegraph” was a novelty, and all telephone receivers had "trumpets" Comments Michael Finkel | GQ | 1 May 2012 Robber, con artist, plane hijacker, escaped prisoner, domestic terrorist. George Wright is all of the above. He spent 41 years on the run. Until police trapped him in Portugal. But there was still time for one last great escape Comments | 
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