On the reissue of Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals. Santayana’s alarming thought that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” has at least as much relevance to the world of ...
Driving in from the airport toward Hong Kong Island, you pass the huge Kwai Tsing container port in Kowloon. It’s a vast, sprawling place, mountains of shipping containers piled high in neat rows that ...