Gady Epstein | Economist | 21 December 2012 "On March 20th 1913 a man who represented one possible future for China stood in Shanghai railway station. He was in line to become China's first democratically elected prime minister." Instead, he was shot. Democracy died with him Comments Stephen Carter | Bloomberg | 20 December 2012 He was the only living American whose name became a verb. OED says to "bork" is "to defame or vilify (a person) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office" Comments Tim Folger | National Geographic | 17 December 2012 Will humans ever travel to the stars? What would it take? To get an idea of the challenge, it would take the fastest spacecraft ever built 17,000 years to reach the nearest star. But in 100 years' time things might look different Comments Helena Drysdale | Aeon | 20 December 2012 In which the author visits Bartholomew I, 270th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, spiritual leader of 300m orthodox Christians. Her great-grandfather visited the patriarch's predecessor in 1848. What has changed since then? Comments David Berry | Stunlaw | 19 December 2012 Does technology determine prose style? Henry James switched from handwriting to dictation without any noticeable effect on his novels. But Nietzche's work shows a clear stylistic break between handwritten and typewritten books Comments Evan Goldstein | Chronicle Review | 17 December 2012 "Every era has its emblematic scoundrel: Once it was the cad, later it was the phony, today it is the asshole." But how exactly would you define an asshole? An academic linguist and a philosopher try to work it out Comments | 
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