There are few societies in which I am as conscious of my age, as in Hong Kong. “A twenty-five year old…”, “A youth academic”, “A youth writer”… So on and so forth, you get the gist and I get the drill ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-03
“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove” Shakespeare once quipped. But in my eyes, love must necessarily alter when it alteration finds. For love ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-02
... ，登記買家為黃心穎(Wong Jacqueline)；據悉，黃氏正以月租約2萬元，租住該屋苑一個高層2房單位。 ...全文
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for a year. As Russian troops look to be mobilising for one last hurrah, and as Ukrainian troops – riding on a ceaseless tidal wave of NATO equipment ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-24
History is boring. We get it. I get it. Indeed, there’s a reason why certain politicians and goons enjoy piling on history – it’s because history is defenseless in face of the more exciting, animated, ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-23
... 酒癡Cecilia Wong，她叫了一瓶Domaine Eric Bordelet的Pear Cider，並請 ...全文
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. A story that revolves around a tradition in a small town – “The Lottery”, which, through a purely random mechanism of arbitrary selection, arrives at a particular ind ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-14
For Hong Kong to be truly back, we must go maskless – now. Dropping the inane mask requirement is a necessary but insufficient part of Hong Kong’s trek towards normalisation. The following makes the c ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-14
... nist of a Wong Kar Wai movie, or a sign-spinning virtuoso. Yet in this life, she is a middle-aged, frustrated housewife – trying her very best to adapt and learn the very skills she needs to protect h ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
A few months back I sat down with a couple of friends from a leading university in Hong Kong – and we had a terrific, electrifying chat about how we could bring Effective Altruism (EA) to the city. Ma ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
What makes a good teacher? How do we measure the successes of an educator? Some say, it’s to do with the number of A*s and As (or 7s, 8s, and 9s) these teachers churn out. Others suggest that it’s ref ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
11 people. 11 lives lost at the hands of a shooter. Another 10 wounded. A shooting that occurred in a city known for its large Asian population, coinciding with the Lunar New Year festivities. One amo ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
A nation that trumpets its own success, that heralds its ostensibly inevitable trajectory towards greatness, and that frames its relations with competitors and rivals as one defined by a moral hierarc ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
I was invited to address the Harvard-Sciences Po Conference last Saturday; the convenors had wanted a keynote on the intersection of media, technology, and geopolitics – and thus I obliged, with a for ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
