Raghuram Rajan | Booth School of Business/Foreign Affairs | 30 April 2012 Excellent, authoritative and measured overview of today's economic ills. Much papering-over of cracks in past few decades. Status quo ante not a good place to return to. So here are some suggestions for ways forward (PDF) Comments Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 27 April 2012 "For the rich the spirit of cooperation on which democracy depends is only an option, not a necessity. When the rich engage in politics they are not under the same constraints as the rest of us to find a mutually agreeable solution" Comments Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert's Journal | 26 April 2012 Film critic prepares his nominations for the poll organised each decade by "Sight and Sound". Out goes Kieslowski's "Dekalog", on a technicality. In comes Malick's "Tree of Life", just ahead of Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" Comments Nadine Gordimer | NYRB | 30 April 2012 "In the new South Africa that was reborn in the early 1990s, with its freedom hard-won from apartheid, we now have the imminent threat of updated versions of the suppression of freedom of expression that gagged us under apartheid" Comments Will Doig | Salon | 28 April 2012 Portugal's PlanIT Valley aims to be first "sentient" city. But if faces challenges. "Humans will act in ways that even the smartest computer model can fail to anticipate — which is fine, until you put your entire city in its hands" Comments Mike Konczal | Jacobin | 23 April 2012 "A government that creates mass incarceration is the obvious result of the ideologies of neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism that have come to dominate in the wake of the New Deal liberal order’s collapse." Here's why Comments | 
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