Andri Snær Magnason | Eurozine/Magyar Lettre | 6 June 2012 How Iceland committed economic suicide. "Economists speak of the invisible hand of the market, correcting the market when an imbalance arises. In Iceland, the imbalance had become such that an invisible guillotine was formed" Comments Michael Steinberger | Vanity Fair | 12 June 2012 Full story of Rudy Kurniawan, accused of selling millions of dollars of counterfeit wines. "It is potentially the largest case of wine fraud in history and may have left the market for rare and old wines irredeemably corrupted" Comments Jill Lepore | New Yorker | 11 June 2012 History of the US Supreme Court, and the struggle in America – not always successful – to separate law and politics. Whatever the court decides on Obamacare, it will leave questions about the court's role past and present Comments Deirdre McCloskey | New Republic | 8 June 2012 Outstanding essay on measuring happiness. Critiques new "science" of hedonics, and the dreaded 1-2-3 studies relied on by so many economists. "We do not need more hedonomics or utilonomics or freakonomics. We need humanomics" Comments Joshua Jelly-Schapiro | LA Review Of Books | 11 June 2012 Behind Bob Marley stood The Wailers. Behind The Wailers stood Jamaica. Essay on the island and music pegged to a film and two biographies. Marley as the Martin Luther King of Rastafarianism. Peter Tosh as the Malcolm X Comments Adam Gopnik | BBC | 10 June 2012 "The one thing that is written into the human genome is that exactly at the age of 13, your child will discover that you are now the most embarrassing, ridiculous and annoying person on the planet. This is a universal truth" Comments | 
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