Evgeny Morozov | New Republic | 22 February 2012 Best review yet of Isaacson's "Jobs". Maybe even better than the book. Full of good stuff on Apple's design and marketing, its debt to the Bauhaus. Makes the case that, for once, "corporate philosophy" is not too strong a term Comments Alex Byrne | Boston Review | 21 February 2012 Can you survive death? For the time being it's a question of technology. But if the tech ever gets solved, it will become a question of philosophy. If you can store or replicate your mind or your body, will it still be you? Comments Simon Johnson | Project Syndicate | 22 February 2012 "The message to bank executives today is simple: Build your bank to be as big as possible – and then keep growing. If you manage to become big enough, you and your employees are not just too big to fail, but also too big to jail" Comments Roger Kimball | Weekly Standard | 22 February 2012 There are plenty of good novels being published in America. Probably as many as ever in the past. But no great novels, and there probably never will again. Because the novel no longer occupies a central place in American culture Comments David Bell | Foreign Affairs | 22 February 2012 Cardinal Richelieu is lauded as father of the modern European state. Incorrectly. Instead he was "one the of greatest examples in history of the politician as high-stakes gambler, notable less for what he did than for how he did it" Comments Cary Huang | HTwins | 9 February 2012 Excellent interactive feature sets size of our universe and us in perspective. Zoom out from the minute neutrino, right up to the massive Virgo Supercluster. Click on any objects you don't recognise to learn more about them Comments | 
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