Hong Kong Apostasy 義人得生
惡人必亡   The quelling of the Umbrella Movement in 2014 marked the beginning of the end of Hong Kong’s unique place in the Chinese world. Ten years later, on 19 November 2024, that process reached its inevitable denouement.… Read

Spectres & Souls 臥薪嘗膽 This is bullcrap, dude!
Herbert Garrison: Now children, it’s not that bad. There’s plenty of great new mascots on the sheet to chose from. The Hurricanes, the Blizzards, the Redskins, the Indians…
Wendy: But aren’t Indians and Redskins just as offensive?… Read

Spectres & Souls 梟雄   At the center of what I know is the realization and the acceptance of the certainty that never in my lifetime will I live again in the world in which I was born and grew to maturity.… Read

Spectres & Souls 患得患失   The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’… Read

Spectres & Souls 魑魅魍魉   ‘A hubris-crazed monster from the bowels of the American dream with a heart full of hate and an overweening lust to be President.’ The gonzo journalist Hunter S.… Read

Spectres & Souls 天翻地覆慨而慷   Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s… Read