William Langewiesche | Vanity Fair | 10 April 2012 "It is an understanding, a way of justice, a means of creating wealth and spreading it around. It has been a part of life in Naples for centuries—far longer than the fragile construct called Italy has even existed" Comments Peter Van Buren | Huffington Post/TomDispatch | 9 April 2012 Final piece by State Dept whistleblower before he was fired. "We thought that our employers would be concerned about what we had stumbled upon and would want to work with us to resolve it. We are guilty of naiveté, not treason" Comments Daniel Mendelsohn | New Yorker | 9 April 2012 Why does the story of the Titanic grip our imagination so? "To get to the bottom of why we can't forget it, you have to turn away from the facts and consider the realm to which the Titanic and its story properly belong: Myth" Comments Christopher de Bellaigue | NYRB | 5 April 2012 "The pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is the supreme expression of global Islam. This year more than 2.5 million Muslims will undertake the journey." By 2030, that number is expected to have grown to 20 million. Here's what it means Comments David Hill | Grantland | 8 April 2012 Memoir of growing up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the "loose buckle on the Bible Belt". Local industries: Gambling and horse racing. "Wide-open town" where "a dishonest man could make an honest living" and mobsters could relax Comments Nathan Heller | New Yorker | 9 April 2012 Half of US residents are now single. "Does aloneness deserve a less untoward image? Aside from monastic seclusion, which is just another way of being together, it is hard to come up with a solitary life that doesn’t invite pity" Comments | 
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