Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhiis said to havequippedthat such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn makes clear in her new book, Western civilisation has always been a bad idea, or at a...
Falsehood 4: The US democracy is one of the most powerful assets in this contest. Our task is to prove once again that democracy can meet urgent challenges and that the future belongs to those who believe in freedom.事实真相:美国按照自身模式划定“民主标准”,...
“白左”身份理论的起源、流行与弊端 PS: “白左”是中文世界里对欧美一些进步左派progressives的讽刺性称呼,不过也不是凭空而来。当代进步派ideology谱系里有一系列主要议题,比如女权、环保、少数族裔、性别少数等等(可能现在不太关心工人阶级了),搞身份政治identity politics(女性、少数族裔、性别少数)是进步派的标志之...
And yet, to a remarkable degree, Facebook’s way of doing business remains the norm for the tech industry as a whole, even as other social platforms (TikTok) and technological developments (artificial intelligence) eclipse Facebook in cultural relevance. 然而,令人惊讶的是,Facebook的商业模式在整...
I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy against what they call the vices of the upper orders. The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality sh...
Song of Myself 自我之歌 惠特曼的诗离不开的话题包括 “Grass-root democracy”, equality, and communion between individuals. The poem explores the possibilities of communion between individuals. Starting from the premise that “what I assume you shall assume”. The poet, a specific individual melts...
The hosts of Planet Money even created an audio book, reading the entire book on the air. Last year’s entry of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) into the public domain likewise sparked a range of creativity. The most publicity went to celebrity and incongruous reuses, from Ryan Reynolds’ “Winnie-...
The Problem of Thor Bridge Arthur Conan Doyle Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It i
墨菲对罗尔斯的“政治”概念感到不满。[就在罗尔斯著作中出现的政治而言,可以被化约为“利益政治”,也就是对不同利益的追求在与可选择的诸话语竞争后,被定义为要优先于并独立于它们之间的可能联结。其政治理论的目标在于通过建立一致同意的、中立的规则约束这种追求。当然,对罗尔斯而言,那些规则有着一种道德特征,因...
criticism can have anything to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Still less are they receptive to the idea that the very foundations of their worldview must be revised or rebuilt in the light of such criticism. Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long ...