Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 11 September 2012 Admiring portrait. Much discussed, now ungated. Perceptively done. Good quotes. "There are some things about being president that I still have difficulty doing. For example, faking emotion." Obama has found his Schlesinger Comments Juan Cole | Detroit News | 11 September 2012 "The United States government's reaction to the attacks of 9/11 some 11 years ago took the world into a tragic era of unnecessary wars and confrontation that destabilized allies and threatened vital long-term US interests" Comments Mat Honan | Wired | 11 September 2012 Sequel to last month's story in which tech writer Honan described how his life descended into turmoil when he was hacked. This time, he goes eyeball-to-eyeball with a 15-year-old master hacker who tells him how and why he does it Comments Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson | NYRB | 7 September 2012 Assessment of new books by Nobel-winning economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz. Both diagnose major problems for the US, going far beyond economics. If the cause is political, the cure must be too Comments Elizabeth Quill | ScienceNews | 9 September 2012 The science of how systems interact. "Findings suggest that networks of networks pose risks of catastrophic danger that can exceed the risks in isolated systems. A seemingly benign disruption can generate rippling negative effect" Comments Various | Big Picture | 10 September 2012 Wonderful photo gallery. Images of crops being brought in around the world (wild haying in Switzerland looks a perilous activity), harvest festivals, and a reminder that rain and agricultural plenty cannot be taken for granted Comments | 
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