Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 11 June 2012 Present indications are that Obama vs Romney will be a very tight contest. If it's Obama, narrowly, what will he do, how will he behave in a second term? Lizza sketches out his likely priorities, and scope for action Comments Dan Hurley | Discover | 7 June 2012 The engram, the physical trace of memory in the brain, seemed a mythical concept. No longer. "We now know enough about memory and how memories are formed that we can actually find the engram, and by finding it, we can manipulate it" Comments Chris Kirkham | Huffington Post | 7 June 2012 On the lucrative business of incarcerating immigrants. "You build a strong image of fear of these Mexican immigrants, which creates a moral justification for imprisoning them, and at the same time brings in lots of money" Comments Christopher Hayes | Nation | 6 June 2012 Misleading title. What it's about is why meritocracies and democracies fail. They turn into plutocracies and oligarchies. Incumbents in any meritocracy eventually capture the high ground for themselves and their heirs Comments ALexander Barker and Alex Niven | Oxonian Review | 4 June 2012 On politics, Catholicism, academia. "Most people I know in academia want to get out. The neo-managerial ethos has effectively brought to an end a 200-year-old tradition of the university as a centre of critique" Comments Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | Washington Post | 8 June 2012 Forty years on from Watergate, we know much more about Nixon's presidency, most of it bad. He waged war "against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself" Comments | 
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