William Saletan | Slate | 22 February 2012 "To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult passage of his political life: How he changed his position on abortion. Not the story he tells about it, but the real story." A painstaking, fascinating piece Comments 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 Kelefa Sanneh | New Yorker | 20 February 2012 With Ron Paul. "When he warns against threatening Iran, or calls the war on drugs 'a total failure,' or observes that 'rich white people don’t get the death penalty very often,' he seems like a man competing in a separate contest" Comments Jesse Hicks | Verge | 21 February 2012 Outstanding analysis of Research In Motion: Its history, management, failure to capitalise on early BlackBerry success, and future potential. Are we watching the end of a once iconic brand? Or the start of a turnaround? Comments Toby Jones | Nation | 15 February 2012 Pity poor Hamza Kashgari. He made some injudicious comments on Twitter and now he's a pawn about to be sacrificed by the Saudi ruling family. This has little to do with the sanctity of Islam; everything to do with power politics Comments Giles Milton | Surviving History | 21 February 2012 In 1944, elite Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was sent to the Filipino island of Lubang on a mission to carry out sabotage attacks. He was ordered never to surrender. And he didn't. Not until 29 years after the war ended 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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