> It's terrible terminology to be sure It's a fairly common pattern in English: e.g. "moral - amoral - immoral", or "political - apolitical - anti-political".

> It's terrible terminology to be sure It's a fairly common pattern in English: e.g. "moral - amoral - immoral", or "political - apolitical - anti-political". > it's surprising that no one in the chain of publication for this article flagged that. I think the choice here is deliberate: the century stands accused of being hostile to social life, ergo it is anti-social, not asocial.