Britta Sandberg and Mathieu von Rohr | Spiegel | 24 January 2012 Intelligent interview with Alain Minc, French political fixer. On Sarkozy: "The crisis has definitely helped him to become adult." On Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "The details weren't known, but people knew about his fragility" Comments Paul Hiebert | The Awl | 20 January 2012 "I deal in other people's agony. I do. You can't candy coat that. But if you can't live with that, you shouldn't be in this game. I'm not some nice person from a nice place. I'm not. I do my damndest to be a decent man" Comments Brad Stone | Businessweek | 26 January 2012 Helpful update on Amazon's decision to compete with traditional publishers. "On the West Coast people cheerfully call this kind of arrangement coopetition. On the East Coast it’s usually referred to as getting stabbed in the back" Comments Olivier Roy | New Statesman | 25 January 2012 On Islamism after the Arab Spring and electoral success. "It is not the convictions of political actors that shape their policies but the constraints to which they are subject." And Islamists are just as constrained as anyone else Comments Sam McNerney | Why We Reason | 24 January 2012 Confronting the idea of the unified self. Those who stand against the concept include Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker and Michael Gazzaniga. In favour are the arguments of philosopher Julian Baggini. Who's correct? Comments Lance Knobel | Davos Newbies | 25 January 2012 "The dark, dirty secret you learn when you run the program at Davos is that the vast majority of CEOs have nothing to say. There is no correlation between being a successful business leader and having interesting ideas" Comments | 
