Raghuram Rajan | Booth School of Business/Foreign Affairs | 30 April 2012 Excellent, authoritative and measured overview of today's economic ills. Much papering-over of cracks in past few decades. Status quo ante not a good place to return to. So here are some suggestions for ways forward (PDF) Comments Nadine Gordimer | NYRB | 30 April 2012 "In the new South Africa that was reborn in the early 1990s, with its freedom hard-won from apartheid, we now have the imminent threat of updated versions of the suppression of freedom of expression that gagged us under apartheid" 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 Julie Park | The Point | 24 April 2012 Clever, nuanced essay reconsiders Amy Chua's parenting advice. "Precisely because I was raised in a Tiger Mom world, but rebelled against it, I understand where Chua is coming from, but I can also see what remains invisible to her" Comments Anonymous | You Are Not So Smart | 17 April 2012 Fascinating essay on willpower. Tests suggest it's a finite resource, not a skill. "Every time you exert control over the giant system that is you, that control gets weaker." Why? It just might be as simple as a lack of glucose Comments 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 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 David Kushner | New Yorker | 30 April 2012 George Hotz started the hacker wars. The grungy teenager from New Jersey was the first person to unlock an iPhone. But it was when he defeated Sony's PS3 that things started getting really out of hand Comments | 
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