What has always fascinated me about World War I was the fundamental change that this titanic futility worked in the way English-speaking people thought.

WSJ: Goodbye to All That

This includes vast portions of China and India -- the latter alone has 200 million educated, English-speaking people.

FORBES: Digital rules

Nearly 14% of the country's 18m people were born in non-English speaking countries.

ECONOMIST: But what kind of republic is what matters most