Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 14 December 2012 Gun lobbyists have made a clear moral choice: "That the comfort and emotional reassurance they take from the possession of guns, placed in the balance even against the routine murder of innocent children, is of supreme value" Comments Peter Singer | Project Syndicate | 10 December 2012 Should we try to combat ageing, rather than merely the diseases of ageing? If so, what are the implications? And is it better to have fewer people living longer lives or more people living shorter lives? Comments Anonymous | Economist | 14 December 2012 All you need to know about America's fiscal cliff. How it was created, what it means, why it's so knotty to resolve. And who, in negotiations between Democrat and Republican, holds the stronger hand Comments Brian Hayes | American Scientist | 13 December 2012 Can a computer program reproduce everything that happens inside a living cell? Are we on the threshold of “completing” molecular biology? Comments Andrew Brown | Guardian | 14 December 2012 "Cyclists are hated because they are cheats. The motorist is born free, but everywhere he is in queues. The courier burning through a red light demonstrates the freedom that car drivers have traded for comfort" Comments Eric Banks | Bookforum | 11 December 2012 Tired title, laboured first paragraph, but once you're past those, the pleasure of this piece begins. On Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: Its canonic status as the most referenced orchestral work; and the power of those first four notes Comments | 
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