Masha Gessen | Vanity Fair | 2 March 2012 Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared confront then president Vladimir Putin. He was convicted in two Kafka-esque trials and remains in prison. This terrific piece charts the two men's clash Comments Charles Duhigg | Slate | 28 February 2012 Fascinating history of toothpaste (!) and American advertising executive Claude C Hopkins. A man who unwittingly discovered the three essentials of how to make people form habits: The cue, the routine and the reward Comments Klaus-Michael Bogdal | Eurozine | 24 February 2012 "Might not the history of the Roma, a group marginalised like none other, reveal a less auspicious aspect of Europe's grand narrative of modernity?" Good question to kick off this historical analysis of European attitudes to gypsies Comments Colin Kidd | London Review Of Books | 29 February 2012 The Scottish question. In different ways, puts both Labour and Conservatives in a difficult position. Tories must handle referendum and possible break-up of UK. But Labour faces longer term threat of exclusion from power Comments Alice Gregory | n+1 | 1 March 2012 Notes from a year spent working as a junior at Sotheby's in New York. "Paintings with red in them usually sell for more than paintings without red in them. Warhol’s women are worth more, on average, than Warhol’s men" Comments Richard Wortman | National Interest | 28 February 2012 Fine essay reviewing Robert Massie book on Catherine the Great. "Her unremitting sexual appetites became a way to acquire intelligent and energetic devotees upon whom she could rely in the snake pit of the Russian court" Comments | 
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