Brushing up on Xi Jinping Thought today, I read the 2023 Xi Jinping article from the Party ideological journal Qiushi [Seeking Truth] and felt inspired to translate it as 2023 Xi Jinping: Chinese-s…| 高大伟 David Cowhig's Translation Blog
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, Eric Berger (BenBella Books, 2024).| www.thepsmiths.com
I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have rea…| The Scholar's Stage
"BENE GESSERIT: the ancient school of mental and physical training established primarily for female students after the Butlerian Jihad destroyed the so-called "thinking machines" and robots." ―Terminology of the Imperium[src] The Bene Gesserit Order, often shortened to simply the Bene Gesserit or the Sisterhood, were an ancient and adept organisation, who privately denied they were a religious order, but who operated behind an almost impenetrable screen of ritual mysticism, and whose...| Dune Wiki
What is Mimetic Desire? Nearly everyone (unconsciously) assumes there’s a straight line between them and the things they want. >> […]| Luke Burgis
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Xi Jinping’s decision to openly label the United States the source of China’s ills rolled through the newsletters, wire services, and commentators on China this week. Much has been written about th…| The Scholar's Stage
The political project of the “post liberals” is not my own. Many of their critiques of contemporary American life and politics mirror what I have written; many of their suggestions for the future o…| The Scholar's Stage
Readers of the Scholar’s Stage will be familiar with a thesis I have pursued in multiple essays and posts over the last half decade: America was once a place where institutional capacity was …| The Scholar's Stage