Lack of Foresight
It always seemed to me that the Chinese would never replace us as global hegemons. It wasn’t their economic strength, nor the size or innovative nature of their population. It was their language. In order to impose your will on the rest of the world you have to impose your culture. Surely English has become…
Mind the Gap
Thursday had been a perfect day for a ride, but I found some excuse. By Sunday the guilt had overcome me and, on another perfect day, I’d set out with barely a clue as to where I was headed. Up the familiar Rt 501, our escape highway to and over the Blue Mountain, I had an…
Took the Bait
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the urge to write about this Charlie Kirk thing, despite the real risk that Bondi’s Thought Police might come a’knockin, no matter how carefully I couch it.Truth is, like most of you reading this, I stay in my own media silo. Which means, NY Times, Washington Post, PBS, major network news…
That Hurts!
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” is more than a Taylor Swift song title. It’s the name of a form of execution, practiced over centuries in China, in which the victims were killed slowly and agonizingly over a protracted period of time, by repeated small cuts to their flesh. In its metaphorical form, it applies to…
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