Harold Bloom | NYT | 12 November 2011 Bloom on magnificent form in this most elegant evisceration of Mormonism (old and new) and Mitt Romney. But why stop there? Bloom doesn't, sliding the knife into Southern Baptists and wider American religion and politics too Comments Jonathan Ford | Prospect | 14 November 2011 Clear summary of global financial woes – dangers of high debts, changing demographics, current account imbalances. History suggests two remedies for indebted nations – default or inflation. But what we need is organised rebalancing Comments Michael Gazzaniga | Slate | 15 November 2011 Gazzinga explores relationship of neuroscience to the law. Interesting throughout. "Does modern neuroscience deepen our ideas about determinism, and, with more determinism, is there less reason for retribution and punishment?" Comments Adam Nicholson | National Gegraphic | 15 November 2011 "No other book has given more to the English-speaking world. You don't have to be a Christian to hear the power of those words—simple in vocabulary, cosmic in scale, stately in their rhythms, deeply emotional in their impact" Comments Ann Marsh | Stanford | 11 November 2011 Super profile of Paul Kocher, leading digital security expert. Secret of his success? "Whittle problems down to projects that are manageable. Trying to solve the world's data security problems is like a doctor trying to solve death" Comments Jon Wertheim & David Epstein | Sports Illustrated | 15 November 2011 And this is what you should read if you want to know about the most explosive scandal in the history of US college sports. And why one of those whose careers it ended was "arguably the most unfireable person in all of sports" Comments | 
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