... ive. From my diction – my choice of words – to the subtext (sometimes, there’s more than one), from the examples I include, or exclude, to the form that permeates the substance, to partake intentional ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-18
... eader. In my EJ column a few months back I had compared the then recalcitrant Joe Biden – nursing his wounds from a catastrophic debate performance – to Lear, as both men refused to “go gently into th ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-18
... eaking of my grandfather, the Reverend Frederick O’Neill, a missionary of the Irish Presbyterian Church in Faku (法庫 ), Liaoning from 1897 to 1942. The event he is describing occurred in the spring of ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-08
... is is why my answer is as follows: we live for the better versions of ourselves. We live for our own better angels – versions of ourselves that embody quintessentially unmistakable elements of our per ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-05
... 曲Heart on My Sleeve在Spotify上一舉獲得逾2000萬的點擊，到今年年初，最大唱片公司環 ...全文
越南女首富張美蘭（Truong My Lan）涉及數百億美元的銀行詐騙，今年4月被判死刑後提出上訴，法院周二駁 ...全文
越南女首富張美蘭(Truong My Lan)因策劃該國歷來最大宗金融詐騙案而於4月被判處死刑後提出上訴，法院 ...全文
... its economy and things are looking up. “I bought my first Chinese shares many years ago I hope that my children someday wake up and say, oh my gosh, look at all these shares and we are rich,” he said ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-28
... n staking my case. “Historical injustices are eponymously wrongdoings that occurred in the past, Brian. Why should we be bogged down and bothered by it?” The question goes. The logical corollary and i ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-26
One of my favourite songs of all time opens with,“When you try so hard and you don’t succeed… When you get what you want, but not what you need.” Thanks, Coldplay. Life is filled with frustrated aspir ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
It was the tenth lecture of my twelve-lecture series introducing my MA students to the theory and practice of politics. On this gloomy, somewhat dour November day, I opened my lecture with two particu ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
