Anonymous | Economist | 4 November 2011 Why have unemployment levels remained stubbornly high? Has technological progress, and increasing digitization of knowledge, contributed by rendering more and more jobs obsolete, while society simply hasn't caught up? Comments Dana Vachon | Vanity Fair | 3 November 2011 Investment banker-turned-author Dana Vachon profiles the Winklevoss brothers, identical twin Olympic rowers who sued Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and refuse to admit defeat. The result is a hilarious, insightful look at their battle Comments Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 9 November 2011 For British readers, that's Washington's special relationship with Israel, not the UK. Excellent analysis argues that unconditional nature of those ties works against US national interests. Better to treat Israel like any other ally Comments Gary Gutting | NYT | 9 November 2011 Philosopher answers, by way of Plato. "Current calls for 'less government' actually mean less power for elected leaders and for the bureaucracies that serve them and more power for the 'oligarchy' of millionaires and corporations" Comments Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Guardian | 11 November 2011 Icelandic MP and early WikiLeaks supporter Birgitta Jonsdottir describes her outrage at the fact that the U.S. government was able to compel Twitter to release her personal information Comments Sam Harris | Sam Harris | 5 November 2011 "It is overwhelmingly likely that some of you will become the targets of violence in the future. The purpose of this essay is to help prepare you for it." So begins a masterful blogpost that explains the essentials of self-defence Comments | 
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