Condoleezza Rice | Washington Post | 9 March 2012 "Putin has staked his legitimacy on prosperity and order, but he seemed not to understand that a prosperous population would demand respect, too. In declaring that he would be president again, he insulted the Russian people" Comments Adam Curtis | BBC | 6 March 2012 "In the 1970s everything changed. For that was the moment when religion was deliberately brought into politics in both America and Iran with the aim of using it as a revolutionary force." Curtis tells the story of how it happened Comments Robert Shiller | Bloomberg | 8 March 2012 Fourth and best extract from Shiller's new book. Financial elite is like an Indian caste. "They realise an immense economic advantage. Fearful of compromising that advantage, they adhere to the caste’s social norms" Comments Ezra Klein | NYRB | 1 March 2012 Review of books on lobbying, by Laurence Lessig and Jack Abramoff. The threat to democracy comes not from bribery, which is rare. It comes from "legislative subsidy", a nice way of saying that the lobbyists get to write the laws Comments Susan Dominus | NYT | 7 March 2012 "A lot of these kids were having a happy, normal life." And then they started twitching. Quite a lot. What happened when mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria, descended on the town of Le Roy, in upstate New York Comments Sarah Ellison | Vanity Fair | 7 March 2012 "Sad story, isn't it?" On money, management battles and missed opportunities at the Washington Post. Under the successors of Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee, is the paper still punching its weight? Comments | 
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