Jason Zengerle | GQ | 18 July 2012 After Palin, never again. Aspiring president can't risk having VP candidate blow up on him. Hopefuls get top-to-tail vetting. "It's totally invasive. It's like having a colonoscopy, except they use the Hubble telescope on you" Comments Jack Shafer | Reuters | 18 July 2012 New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, 70, has one year left in office, maybe 13 years left on earth. He's made his billions. He's not going for the White House. What's left? Rescuing the Washington Post would be a service to the country Comments John Kay | John Kay/FT | 18 July 2012 If you want to be a sporting nation, choose your sport, invest your money, and lead the world. Russia did it in chess. Britain is doing it in cycling. Far more cost-effective than staging prestige events such as the Olympics Comments Lee Perlman | New Atlantis | 18 July 2012 Terrific appraisal of Gulliver's Travels . "The enemy of human authenticity and flourishing is pride, the pinnacle of which is the denial of the lies inherent in our nature." Is this the target of Swift's satire? Comments Geoffrey Wheatcroft | TLS | 18 July 2012 On Churchill's other career as a writer, which made him lots of money thanks to his skills in evading taxes and outwitting publishers. "Factory system" of ghostwriters and researchers wrote his histories, won him a Nobel prize Comments John Ore | The Awl | 13 July 2012 Well-told tale of ill-judged college expedition. Most of us have been there. By which we mean not the Grand Canyon, but setting off somewhere with little more than a sweatshirt and a youthful assumption that everything will be ok Comments | 
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