Gabriel O'Malley | Boston Review | 22 October 2012 How Texas murdered an innocent man. Pro-death penalty arguments sometimes run along the lines of there being no clear evidence that convicts have been executed for crimes they didn't commit. Can that argument still be made? Comments Frances Coppola | Coppola Comment | 1 November 2012 What went wrong with retail banking. Problems didn't arise from proximity to investment banking; they came from the retail sector. Banks became supermarkets for financial products; staff became salespeople Comments Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 31 October 2012 "No matter who wins on November 6, the feature that is going to dominate US national security planning is constraint. The budget math is real and unforgiving." That said, here's Walt's list of what will take up the president's time Comments Peter Rothman | H+ | 1 November 2012 Death today is a term with more legal than scientific meaning. Its definition has changed substantially over the past 200 years. Medical advances mean it will continue to change. Where will the boundary finally be drawn? Comments Matthew O'Brien | Atlantic | 2 November 2012 Interview with Frank Partnoy about rogue traders. Banks say that rogue traders evade controls designed to stop them. But it happens with suspicious frequency. What if the controls are designed to be porous, to encourage risk-taking? Comments Ian McEwan | New Yorker | 29 October 2012 We're attuned to novels and short stories, uneasy with novellas. Why so? Brevity is beauty. The novella is to fiction as the sonata is to music. Within it you can achieve perfection. Think of "The Dead", or "Heart of Darkness" Comments | 
