... t an economy would rebound from the depths of despair. We hold to be certain that certain laws of physics are perennially infallible. We declare with certainty that particular models of governance are ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-15
... n “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Such ideological and pragmatically motivated undercurrents were so prevalent, that even some of the most renowned revolutionary heroes in the country’s modern h ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-09
... was gone, my children and family would not have a good record of my life,” he said. “My parents did not leave any record of their adventurous and interesting lives – to my lasting regret. Once I had s ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-09
There are unpopular presidents, popular presidents, and great presidents. Jimmy Carter, who died last Sunday December 29 at the age of 100, was an unpopular one-term American president. A small-town p ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-02
I spend an unhealthy amount of time answering emails. So I breathed a sigh of relief when I was recently made aware of an application that could scan through thousands of my emails, devise a fairly ac ...More
EJ Insight2025-01-01
... 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
