Intersecting with Eternity
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem,
factórem cæli et terræ, visibílium ómnium et invisibílium. …
The Nicene Creed, from which these sentences are taken, is a Christian profession of faith adopted at the First Council of Nicaea in 325.… Read
The Lessons of Orbán’s Hungary for Trump’s America, according to Miklós Haraszti
Contra Trump
畫地為牢
Rhyming Chaos is a podcast produced by Jeremy Goldkorn. It ‘comprises interviews with people who have lived through or studied periods of great change, upheaval, chaos, and authoritarian takeover.’… Read
‘Go fuck yourself. With a French press, Bill.’
Contra Trump
牟取暴利
You are not the voice of Main Street.
You are not a steward of small business.
You are a fuckin MEGA rich man crying in his coffee because the golden pipeline of cheap imports just coughed.… Read
You are not a steward of small business.
You are a fuckin MEGA rich man crying in his coffee because the golden pipeline of cheap imports just coughed.… Read
Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in.
Contra Trump
揚幡招魂
In April 1994, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University held ‘Mao Craze, Mao Cult? A Symposium on Popular Culture in China Today’. On 23 April 1994, I presented a paper on the theme of ‘The Irresistible Fall and Rise of Mao Zedong’.… Read
Twenty Lessons for a Nation Sleepwalking into Autocracy
Contra Trump
幾希
‘Humans differ but little from beasts’ 人之所以異於禽於獸者幾希 is a well-known line in Mencius 孟子. Moreover, little separates humanity from the law of the jungle and it is why 幾稀 jǐxī, ‘scant’, ‘similar’,‘approximate’ — an expression made famous by Mencius — is the rubric of this chapter in Contra Trump.… Read
Eight Years On
Contra Trump
叱咤風雲
On 31 March 2025, Jonathan Pie reposted his commentary on Donald J. Trump’s victory in the November 2016 US presidential election with the comment:
Eight years on, and nothing has changed.… Read