Cartoon from the current (Sept. 7, 2015) New Yorker , p. 25 —
See as well searches in this journal for Montessori and Machiavelli.
Midrash from Sept. 3 at the online New Yorker —
"We don’t instinctively care about the brand unity
Google wants to achieve with its new mega-company,
Alphabet, of which it is now a part. Especially because
Alphabet takes our most elementally wonderful
general-use word—the name of the components of
language itself—and reassigns it, like the words tweet,
twitter, vine, facebook, friend, and so on, into a branded
realm. In Larry Page’s letter explaining it to us,
Alphabet is illustrated with a bunch of kids’ building blocks.
Operation Childlike Innocence, Phase One."
— Sarah Larson