Boris Kachka | New York | 28 October 2012 Ouch. "Neuroscience, evolutionary biology, behavioral economics are fashionable because of their newness. In these fields, in which shiny new insights so rarely pan out, every populariser must be, almost by definition, a huckster" Comments Simon Schama | Newsweek | 29 October 2012 On 50 years of Bond, and what it says about Britain. Placebo for disappearing empire, fantasy of manly British style, exploration of British impotence. In "Skyfall", it's "Freud rather than Blofeld lurking in the dystopian darkness" Comments Nicholas Pelham | NYRB | 26 October 2012 Economy grew 27% last year thanks to smuggling through the tunnels and to a "geyser of aid money" from Turkey, Saudi, Gulf states going into construction. Hamas dials down the radicalism, invests in hotels, reaches out to Egypt Comments Yasha Levine | Exiled | 12 October 2012 You knew that, of course. You knew it was endowed by the Swedish central bank, "in memory of Alfred Nobel", in 1969. Since when it has played a invaluable part in accrediting neoclassical economics as mainstream economics Comments David Hockney | FT | 26 October 2012 Discursive short essay on images as products of technology. For example: "The smallness of new video cameras makes it possible to pack several together, generating different lines of vision and creating a new kind of cubist camera" Comments Andrew O'Hagan | LRB | 27 October 2012 On Jimmy Savile, sexual abuse, and the BBC's institutional culture. "Why is British light entertainment so often based on the sexualisation of people too young to cope? And why is it that we have a press so keen to feed off it?" Comments | 
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