On the ‘Epstein Class’

Contra Trump 獨夫無厭
殷鑒不遠   In Hemail Peril, a chapter in Contra Trump devoted to the ‘Epstein Files’ and the putrid core of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, we quoted Tina Brown: Jeffrey Epstein is the slug who will not die.… Read

My Father Bao Tong — Part II

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 坦蕩怡天壽 ・ 其貳 This is Part II of My Father Bao Tong, a biographical essay by Bao Pu written to commemorate the life of Bao Tong.… Read

Hemail Peril

Contra Trump 君子豹變，小人革面 Jeffrey Epstein is the slug who will not die. His trail of slime sticks to everyone who ever crossed his path. — Tina Brown, Fresh Hell, 18 November 2025 In this chapter of Contra Trump, we offer a comment on the ‘Epstein Files’, the putrid core of Donald J.… Read

My Father Bao Tong

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium 坦蕩怡天壽 Bao Tong (鮑彤, 1932-2022), former Director of the Office of Political Reform of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (hereafter, CCP) and the highest-ranked party member of the CCP to be imprisoned after the June Fourth Massacre of 1989, died on 9 November 2022, at the age of ninety.… Read

Other People’s Thoughts LXVIII

Other People’s Thoughts This is the sixty-eighth chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read