Nouriel Roubini | Project Syndicate | 11 November 2011 Germany's medicine for European debt troubles is recessionary deflation, which means concentrating pain in eurozone's periphery. It won't work, leads to "paradox of thrift". Roubini's guess? "The endgame for the eurozone has begun" Comments Tom Beckett | Ask/Tell | 23 October 2011 Wide-ranging conversation with metaphysics professor. On relationship of philosophy and poetry, Freud, Heidegger, Cezanne, even Zizek and future of political left. Have "precise and assertive" philosophers become a "pestilence"? Comments Orville Schell | Atlantic | 9 November 2011 These two colossal entities share a curious alignment of goals, policies, even 'ideologies'. "Together, they are engaging in a bold experiment in consumer behavior modification, market economics, and environmental stewardship" Comments Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 7 November 2011 Here's an interesting look at an obscure legal paper that sheds some light on the mystery of Shakespeare's early life, revealing "a squalid tale of gangland rivalries in the theatrical underworld of Queen Elizabeth’s day" Comments Timothy Snyder | NYRB | 9 November 2011 President Yanukovych really doesn't seem to understand that the European Union wants to help Ukraine, not to annexe it. And his confusion on that point may lead to Ukraine's reabsorption by Russia, which has the opposite aims Comments Bruce Bower | ScienceNews | 5 November 2011 Evolutionary biologists turn their attention to the origins of language. And their studies of comparative speech data produce some surprising results that challenge the views of traditional linguists, including Chomsky and Greenberg Comments | 
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