Sublime

We have given every student, regardless of language, race or religion, equal opportunities for education and employment. Hundreds get scholarships every year, over 150 to go to universities abroad. All are judged and rewarded according to their performance, not their fathers’ wealth or status. Economic progress has resulted from this and made life

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Lee Kwan Yew visits Harvard and it shocked by their egalitarian beliefs https://t.co/0e59HkROVU

n’ont plus les moyens aujourd’hui d’avoir la taille qu’ils ont adoptée au XXe siècle. Or, qu’est-ce qui caractérise la taille de l’État au XXe siècle par rapport au XIXe ? Essentiellement la naissance de l’État-providence. C’est donc surtout l’État-providence qui devra être réduit, et l’État devra surtout revenir à ses fonctions régaliennes :

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In a recent essay, Zhao gives us some insights about how the tianxia worldview emerged in the transition from the Shang to the Zhou dynasty at the beginning of the first millennium BCE. A limited power that succeeded a much larger empire, the Zhou dynasty devised a worldview to control the larger entity by making global politics a priority over the

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email apps are blocked), a hard time glancing at news headlines from the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, and a hard time navigating cities without Chinese payment apps. I returned to China only once after the dissolution of zero-Covid. At the end of 2024, the country felt more fortresslike than before the pandemic. Shanghai is strangely

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The result is that the New Faith, which rejects nearly every fundamental principle of liberal modernity – the existence of an objective and immutable reality that can be discovered by reason; the scientific method; an enduring human nature; the primacy of the sovereign individual over the collective; impartial equality before the law; secular... See more

Our shift away, as a culture, from this type of thinking, from veneration of leaders, is both a symptom and a cause of our current condition. We have grown weary and skeptical of leadership itself; the heroic has for most gone the way of the mythological—relics of a past that we tell ourselves are irredeemably rooted in a history of domination and

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