Martin Wolf | FT | 1 November 2011 Germany wants to keep its surpluses, minimise financing of others' deficits. It's not going to work. There's been too much borrowing by the profligate, too much lending by the supposedly prudent. Both are at fault, both must adjust Comments Adam Green | Vogue | 25 October 2011 For those who haven't heard of her, Sterne is chief digital officer of New York City. Impressive, ambitious, intellectual. "But she’s also really nice and gracious and poised. She’s a lady. She’s kind of our Kate Middleton” Comments Jessa Crispin | Smart Set | 28 October 2011 Fascinating essay on mental illnesses as cultural products. From hysteria to multiple personality disorders. "We learn how to be mad, the same way we learn how to be male or female, or how we learn how to participate in society" Comments Theodore Ziolkowski | Berfrois | 1 November 2011 "Within the past decade it has won its place in the standard anthologies of world literature and become a staple in college courses in literature and religion." How has the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh won such widespread acclaim? Comments Sam Leith | Intelligent Life | 1 November 2011 The best public speakers play with local, cultural memes: "Barack Obama sailed to power using rhetoric that would have had satirists sharpening their pens and the electorate laughing had it issued from the mouth of David Cameron" Comments Tim Layden | Sports Illustrated | 1 November 2011 For five decades Williams College in Massachusetts hadn't issued the number 50 football jersey. No one seemed to know why. The school didn't retire numbers. And then an email from a former player dropped into the coach's inbox Comments | 
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