Max Charkin | Vanity Fair | 10 January 2012 Oral history of Occupy Wall St movement. From founding activists, celebrities, accidental protesters. "At noon, everybody was supposed to show up. We thought maybe there would be a couple thousand. At first it didn’t seem like that" Comments Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 6 January 2012 Adam Smith is rightly cited as the father of modern economics. But he was also a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, friend of Hume, and saw economics as a branch of moral philosophy. A view which is very relevant today Comments Erich Follath & Jan Puhl | Spiegel | 9 January 2012 Interview with Czech foreign minister Karl Fürst zu Schwarzenberg. Aristocrat. Returned emigré. "I'm home again. I've survived the 20th century." Interesting throughout, especially on Merkel, Germany, Europe. Comments Stuart Clark | New Scientist | 9 January 2012 Inside the hunt for dark matter, that supposedly binds galaxies together. "Now that we have begun to see something, either astrophysics is wrong, or particle physics is wrong, or our whole understanding of dark matter is wrong" Comments Wright Thompson | Grantland | 9 January 2012 Terrifically enjoyable read on four-time Louisiana governor and convicted felon, Edwin Edwards. Now out of prison. Author of immortal election quote: "The only way I'm losing is if I get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy" Comments Lisa Hanawalt | Hairpin | 9 January 2012 Arguably the best review ever. Certainly of "War Horse", as filmed by Steven Spielberg. Possibly of any film. Or indeed anything else. Charming, concise, evocative. The case for the illustrated review is hereby made Comments | 
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