Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | 27 February 2012 Portrait of the American workplace in all its horror. Intrepid reporter goes to work in warehouse owned by, or servicing, unnamed online retail giant. Impossible targets; negligible pay; if you don't like it, you're fired Comments Jeffrey Gettleman | NYRB | 27 February 2012 Why so many small wars in Africa? Because barriers to insurrection have fallen very low. No more colonial powers or superpowers to intervene. Anyone with a satphone can get publicity. If you need troops, just drug some children Comments Leon Neyfakh | Boston | 26 February 2012 On the importance of “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” by William Stuntz, which reveals "how justice is administered by prosecutors who have every incentive to threaten defendants with the harshest possible sentence" Comments Christine Baumgarthuber | New Inquiry | 23 February 2012 "Terrible and lonely are those hours during which I fret and worry and stare at the ceiling. I certainly don't look forward to them. But there was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded but welcomed" Comments Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 27 February 2012 On the Bible's last book. "Revelation, far from being meant as a hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events happening at the time of writing. It’s really a political cartoon about the crisis in the Jesus movement" Comments Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 24 February 2012 Assuming you already speak English. Mandarin jumps out as an obvious choice, but complexity of its written form suggests it would be the wrong candidate. Spanish? Arabic? Both are contenders. But Greene plumps for French. Here's why Comments | 
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