"The least funny book about rich people ever written"

The case against The Great Gatsby

Indeed, The Great Gatsby is less involved with human emotion than any book of comparable fame I can think of. None of its characters are likable. None of them are even dislikable, though nearly all of them are despicable.

Thanx to Arts & Letters Daily

The dots don't connect

Bruce Schneier on hindsight bias and why we weren't sufficiently snooping on the Boston bombers.