Shai Oster et al | Bloomberg | 26 December 2012 How children of China's Communist old guard got so rich. They were put in charge of state corporations created in 1980s. Used assets and cashflow to build private real estate empires in 1990s. Now their kids crash Ferraris Comments Corey Robin | Jacobin | 27 December 2012 We live in a world, not of Hobbesian states, but of failed Hobbesian states. We accept a tradeoff between freedom and security. But our governments are selective about whose freedom they repress, and whose security they assure. Comments Heidi Moore | Guardian | 26 December 2012 Going over the fiscal cliff is not good, but neither is it the end of the world for America. Doomsayers have padded their arguments with some suspect assertions. Here are some of those laid to rest Comments Felix Salmon | Reuters | 26 December 2012 "Philanthropy is one of those areas where the richer you are, the more likely you are to be doing it spectacularly wrong." So let's run down the list of the ways super-rich donors aren't as helpful as they think they are Comments Jeffrey Eugenides | New Yorker | 24 December 2012 Speech to young writers. "Don't censor yourself. Don't go along with the crowd. Don't be greedy. Don't be cheap." And take Nadine Gordimer's advice, via Christopher Hitchens: Try to write posthumously. Here's what she meant by that Comments Ron Rosenbaum | Smithsonian | 24 December 2012 Silicon Valley visionary, pioneer of virtual reality, recants his faith in Web 2.0: "You can draw an analogy to what happened with communism, where at some point you just have to say there's too much wrong with these experiments" Comments | 
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