I Go To Pieces

I see over at The New Yorker the most popular article, for the fourth week in a row, is Lawrence Wright's "The Apostate." Definitely worth reading, if you've got a little time.

Unfortunately, also still popular is last August's nutty attack on the Koch Brothers by Jane Mayer.  It's undoubtedly changed the public debate--in a negative, nearly insane, direction. (A comparable piece would be This American Life's discussion of the economic crash a few years ago.  Overnight, people who had never heard of the phrase started talking about "credit default swaps," figuring that meant they understood what happened.)