Speaking of hope and despair , I've just finished reading a horrible and wonderful book by Matt Taibbi called The Divide: American Justice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. Taibbi is an American journalist who has written for publications such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone and many more. He is no stranger to controversy and even seems to court it, once writing an article called "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope", which led to the sacking of the editor who approved it for publication. The Divide was published in 2014 after years of research, and it shows he is far from being a cheap publicity-seeker. It is a penetrating analysis of the way the 21st century American justice system works. The book opens with a scene in a New York courtroom in 2013. A group of bank executives and employees is paraded in chains, charged with fraud. Their crime? They signed up mortgages based on minimal and often false documentation, then on-sold these
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson