Matthew Teague | Businessweek | 25 October 2012 The rich have money troubles too, sometimes. Or maybe they're just not as rich as they appeared. In which case, if you're a bank, you send for Ken Cage. He recovers yachts, personal jets and racehorses from the overleveraged Comments Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 22 October 2012 Historians and military strategists develop new respect for geography after bungled invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan. "Our desires as nations, like our desires as individuals, are rooted in the unchanging features of our terrain" Comments Chrystia Freeland | Reuters | 15 October 2012 The very rich are different, and not only because they have more money. They are insulated, arrogant, hypocritical, prone to paranoia, indifferent to the misfortunes of others, and convinced of their own special virtue Comments Adam Curtis | BBC | 21 October 2012 Subtitle: How Colonel Gaddafi and the Western establishment together created a pantomime world. Gaddafi was both baddie and goodie at different times, and he was happy to play along, as Curtis, in his inimitable style, explains Comments Raghuram Rajan | Fault Lines | 19 October 2012 "There are two important challenges to the legitimacy of capitalism in the West today. First, it no longer seems to provide equal opportunity to all. A second big challenge is the coming selective enforcement of property rights" Comments Freeman Dyson | NYRB | 18 October 2012 "For most of the 25 centuries since written history began, philosophers were important. They had a deep influence in the worlds of politics and morality as well as in science and scholarship." Not any more. But why not? Comments Jonathan Safran Foer | Slate | 24 October 2012 "He worked harder than any of his peers. He attempted to conceal his insecurity behind an ego built for 20, and his self-love behind self-hatred behind self-love. And perhaps more than any human who has ever lived, he kvetched" Comments SC Gwynne | Outside | 17 October 2012 Visit to Bikini Atoll. Tiny ring of islands in middle of the Pacific; stunningly beautiful; site of US nuclear bomb tests. Long-term effect of fallout wasn't understood; Bikinian people were sent into nuclear exile; lives ruined Comments | 
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