Thomas Schulz | Spiegel | 28 October 2011 "Economists and political scientists believe the US has entered a new Gilded Age, a period of systematic inequality dominated by a new class of super-rich." Fine essay looks at the state of US society, politics and the economy Comments Steven Berlin Johnson | Steven Berlin Johnson | 28 October 2011 If you haven't read the biography, here's the cheat-sheet. It's a worthy memorial. Lucky Isaacson was there to write it. Apple boss an egomaniac, but saw need for collaborators: "Another John Lennon, always looking for McCartneys" Comments Michael Idov | GQ | 27 October 2011 Unmissable story of a most bizarre film project. A cast of thousands. Many living full-time in a nightmare vision of 1950's Moscow. A totalitarian society, under the control of a deranged director. Where the cameras are always on Comments Adam Thirlwell | NYT | 28 October 2011 Review of "dazzlingly inventive" book by David Bellos, translator of Kadare, Perec. Problems of translation overstated. Often no one-to-one equivalence of words across languages. But usage is what matters. That translates Comments Daniel Grushkin | Businessweek | 27 October 2011 How Jim McKenzie acquired the mining rights to a mountain of rare earths worth billions. "I didn’t think I’d get into the minerals business. It looks like I orchestrated this brilliant move, right? But it’s just inadvertent luck” Comments Jonah Lehrer | New Yorker | 25 October 2011 Lehrer reviews new title by influential psychologist Daniel Kahneman: "Although we’d always seen ourselves as rational creatures, it turns out human reason is rather feeble, easily overwhelmed by ancient instincts and lazy biases" Comments | 
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