Raghuram Rajan | Fault Lines | 19 October 2012 "There are two important challenges to the legitimacy of capitalism in the West today. First, it no longer seems to provide equal opportunity to all. A second big challenge is the coming selective enforcement of property rights" Comments SC Gwynne | Outside | 17 October 2012 Visit to Bikini Atoll. Tiny ring of islands in middle of the Pacific; stunningly beautiful; site of US nuclear bomb tests. Long-term effect of fallout wasn't understood; Bikinian people were sent into nuclear exile; lives ruined Comments Thomas Powers | London Review Of Books | 17 October 2012 Best first sentence ever: "Jack Kerouac's short life, big talent and last dollar were all just about exhausted when Joyce Glassman bought him a dinner of hot dogs and beans on a Saturday night in New York City in January 1957" Comments Andrew Sullivan | Daily Beast | 18 October 2012 Reflections on the death of Newsweek's print edition. "There's a reason why Drudge Report and the Huffington Post are named after human beings. It's because when we read online, we migrate to read people, not institutions" Comments Nick Hanauer | Reuters | 16 October 2012 "People like me don't hate Obama because he's going to raise our taxes, although we hate that plenty. We hate him because his views about the importance and primacy of the middle class diminish our status. Our prestige is at stake" Comments Steven Strogatz | NYT | 15 October 2012 "If I tell you the Earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter and 93,000,000 miles from the Sun, does that give you any sense of the distances involved? No, because the numbers are too big." So here's how to go about understanding size Comments | 
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