John Garnaut | Sydney Morning Herald | 26 May 2012 Fascinating article on nepotism and corruption of China's "princelings", children of Communist party leaders. "Society and economy are being held hostage to the wealth-maximising requirements of the political elite" Comments Simon Johnson & Peter Boone | Huffington Post | 27 May 2012 "European politicians are now telling us that an orderly exit for Greece is feasible under current conditions, and Greece will be the only nation that leaves. They are wrong." Here's why, and how crisis could turn to catastrophe Comments Colson Whitehead | New Yorker | 28 May 2012 Remembering a childhood of horror movies. "It was survival training. 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I saw several times before I was 10, taught me more about not opening my door to strangers than a hundred school-assembly lectures" Comments Sarah Churchwell | Guardian | 25 May 2012 "The phrase the American dream was invented to describe a failure, not a promise: Or rather, a broken promise, a dream that was continually faltering beneath rampant monopoly capitalism." Fitzgerald, like few others, saw it coming Comments Dan Ariely | WSJ | 25 May 2012 "We tend to think that people are either honest or dishonest. But that is not how dishonesty works." In a series of experiments, Ariely discovers how, why, and by how much people cheat. The answers may surprise (h/t Daniel Lippman) Comments Andrew Romano | Newsweek | 27 May 2012 Assessment of broken pop icon Brian Wilson. Decades of LSD and cocaine abuse, coupled with "weapons-grade antipsychotics" hurried his descent to voice-hearing manic depressive. Can a Beach Boys reunion tour help to mend him? Comments | 
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