David Remnick | New Yorker | 23 July 2012 Huge feature on Bruce Springsteen, still pumping it out at age 62. "His style in performance is joyously demonic, as close as a white man of Social Security age can get to James Brown circa 1962 without risking a shattered pelvis" Comments Anonymous | London Banker | 20 July 2012 Following last week's tale about shoeboxes, here's another fun (well, fun to read) allegory about banking. This time, imagine a great ship, a feat of engineering, plying the high seas. And then we come to its crew (h/t @polit2k) Comments David Dobbs | Wired | 22 July 2012 After Adam Scott’s collapse at the Open, Dobbs updates a classic from 2010 about "choking". When you think too hard, your game collapses. Happens to the best. You need to "leave your thinking brain in the locker" Comments Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch | 22 July 2012 Chomsky's latest broadside is a sweeping historical survey criticising those who'd curtail our rights and liberties. Subtitled "How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta". (Starts after three-paragraph introduction) Comments Lydia Polgreen | NYT | 21 July 2012 Was Robert Mugabe right? "The takeover of white farms was a disaster for Zimbabwe on many levels. But tens of thousands of people got small farm plots, and many of these new farmers overcame early struggles to fare pretty well" Comments Roger Ebert | NYT | 20 July 2012 "We are one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of firearms in public hands. In theory, the citizenry needs to defend itself. Not a single person at the Aurora theater shot back, but the theory will still be defended" Comments | 
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