Kamila Shamsie | Guernica | 1 February 2012 Why don't American fiction writers engage with what America is doing in the world? "The unmanned drone hovering over Pakistan, controlled by someone in Langley, is an apt metaphor for America’s imaginative engagement with my nation" Comments Massimo Pigliucci | Rationally Speaking | 2 February 2012 Excellent post on limits of neuroscience. Why it's wrong to make sensationalist claims about the mind, morality from our limited understanding of how the brain works. If only more understood the line between science and speculation Comments Christopher Glazek | n+1 | 26 January 2012 America's prison system as moral catastrophe. More African Americans incarcerated than were enslaved in the 1850s. More rapes inside prison than out. A society that allows little way back for ex-cons. Provocative remedy proposed Comments Ed Harrison | AlterNet | 31 January 2012 "Ordinary Europeans had no idea the euro would join countries at the hip and have every reason to feel tricked into the single currency. But this is done and cannot be undone." Now the best way forwards is to accept a transfer union Comments Anita Desai | Prospect | 25 January 2012 Lovely piece in which Desai reflects on the writing process, and juggling work and family. "It becomes a guilty secret: This world you escape into, taking no one with you, not revealing it to anyone." Not every writer has it easy Comments Anonymous | Telegraph | 31 January 2012 "Journalist whose career path took him from Gay News to the editorship of The Catholic Herald." And then on to Burgundy, where, to judge from the coded language of this obituary, he smoked and drank himself to a happy death Comments | 
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