Joseph Stiglitz | Daily Beast | 2 May 2012 Reflections on global economy, Occupy movement. "Much of what has gone on can only be described by the words moral deprivation. Something wrong had happened to the moral compass of so many people working in the financial sector" Comments Chad Wellmon | Hedgehog Review | 27 April 2012 "Asking whether Google makes us stupid, as some cultural critics recently have, is the wrong question. It assumes sharp distinctions between humans and technology that are no longer, if they ever were, tenable." Here's why Comments Mishal Husain | Guernica | 1 May 2012 Interview with human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri, on origins and interpretation of Shari'a law. Widely misunderstood, by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Shia approach more flexible than Sunni. Iran even finances sex change operations Comments Greg Dinkin | Grantland | 1 May 2012 Four times world poker champion. Talk-show favourite. Friend of presidents. So thin he looked like "the advance man for a famine". Could "talk the nuts off a motorcycle". Sold his memoirs to Hollywood. Then came the scandal Comments Atul Gawande | New England Journal Of Medicine | 3 May 2012 "Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out" Comments Paul Krugman | NYRB | 3 May 2012 "The depression we’re in is essentially gratuitous. Recovery would be almost ridiculously easy to achieve. All we need is to reverse the austerity policies of the past couple of years and temporarily boost spending" Comments | 
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