Patrick Radden Keefe | New Yorker | 2 January 2012 Story of epic battle between big oil and American lawyer acting for residents of Ecuadoran Amazon. Fascinating on tactics of corporate giant faced with class-action suit, and shades of grey that emerge in plaintiffs' case Comments Terry Arthur | Adam Smith Institute | 6 January 2012 An answer from Austrian school of economics, home of Hayek. Keynesian stimulus spending useless. To exit recession "all the government needs to do is remove interest rate distortions, get out of the way and watch the market work" Comments Richard Dowden | African Arguments | 6 January 2012 Superb, succinct critique of South Africa's governing party, this week celebrating centenary of its birth. Lavishly, and at expense of South African taxpayers. Party of Mandela and anti-apartheid struggle looks inglorious now Comments Roger Parloff | Fortune | 5 January 2012 "Minkow is blessed with intelligence, courage, indomitable drive, rhetorical gifts, an apparent desire to do good, and a record of documented beneficent deeds. Yet he also keeps doing ghastly things." This is his remarkable story Comments Salman Rushdie | Tumblr/Vanity Fair | 5 January 2012 Rushdie's tribute to his great friend and ally. "I have often been asked if Christopher defended me because he was my close friend. The truth is that he became my close friend because he wanted to defend me." And he was magnificent Comments James Murphy | TLS | 5 January 2012 Re-visiting one of Freud's most intriguing students, Wilhelm Reich. Coined phrase "sexual revolution". Developed real-life predecessor to Woody Allen's ficional Orgasmatron, The Orgone Accumulator. Even persuaded Einstein to test it Comments | 
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