"Acts of God" courtesy of the New Yorker

Questions of agency, divine or otherwise, dog us these early-summer days, amid a pileup of ill tidings: an intractable war; hints, once again, of economic depression; the deep-sea oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Who’s to blame? Who’s in charge?

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/07/12/100712ta_talk_paumgarten#ixzz0tpRTDbFE