George Packer | New Yorker | 28 November 2011 Ray Kachel is a 53-year-old technology worker from Seattle. Or was. He's been out of work for some time, sold most of his remaining possessions, left his flat. Now he's in New York, part of the OWS protest. This is his story Comments Wolfgang Munchau | FT | 27 November 2011 Ten days, to be exact. Until summit on December 9. And it can only survive if governments make ECB lender of last resort, issue eurobonds, and create fiscal union. Which they won't. So that's about it for the single currency Comments Carl Zimmer | The Loom | 22 November 2011 "There’s no culture on Earth without teachers. But just because something’s easy doesn’t mean it’s not special. And in the animal kingdom, teaching is exceedingly rare. In fact, it’s not clear whether any other animal can teach" Comments Kay Hymowitz | City Journal | 27 November 2011 "How did the mean streets once paced by Irish and Italian dockworkers, and later scarred by muggings and shootings, become so cool? The answer involves economic, class, and cultural changes that have transformed American urban life" Comments Anna Reid | Open Democracy | 26 November 2011 Hitler decided to starve the city out. Almost succeeded. 750,000 civilians died of hunger and disease. Greatest loss of life in any modern city. Tragedy minimised, sanitised by Soviets, embarrassed that Germans had got so far Comments Dahlia Lithwick | New York | 27 November 2011 Excellent, sympathetic profile of Elena Kagan, a year and a bit into her job as US Supreme Court justice. She's a listener; a liberal, yes; has a finely tuned social sense. But nothing kneejerk about her. She maddens liberals too Comments | 
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