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

Spectres & Souls 咎由自取   Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing (won’t be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it’s overturned
The order of the soul The  lines are from The Future, a song released by Leonard Cohen in 1992.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 出淤泥而不染   This chapter in Intersecting with Eternity is the result of a serendipitous connection between the artist Lisa Simone and the writer Linda Jaivin, one sparked by a cartoon published by Fiona Katauskas following the US presidential election on 5 November 2024.… Read

Spectres and Souls   there are no barbarians anymore
those people were a kind of solution
unless we
ourselves
unless we ourselves
are The
Barbarians
unless we
ourselves
are The
Barbarians … Laurie Anderson added these words to her incantation-like reading of C.P.… Read

Intersecting with Eternity 歷史的垃圾時間   This chapter in Intersection with Eternity is paired with MAGADU — Kubla Khan, Xanadu & the 2024 American presidential election, part of our series Spectres & Souls, our account of the Danse Macabre between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China (for more on this on-going gyration, see the Epilogue to China’s Highly Consequential Political Silly Season).… Read