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Culture & Public CommentaryArendt Reading NotesFinally finished reading Arendt’s The Human Condition, and feel immensely relieved... Let me make some notes.. Wang Yinli’s Chinese translation of The Human Condition is basically…2011.09.28Culture & Public CommentaryDo the People Have the Right to Be Ignorant? — With a Discussion of Enlightenment and Unconcealment2012.05.14Culture & Public CommentaryReviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System2010.11.09Culture & Public CommentaryIn Praise of “Rumors”2012.04.15
Culture & Public CommentaryFrom Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle2019.02.15
Culture & Public CommentaryCan a Screen Change the Fate of Education?2018.12.14
Culture & Public Commentary“Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?2021.01.05
Culture & Public CommentaryFrom Melamine to Thesis Plagiarism Checks: A Completely Meaningless Detection-and-Evasion Battle2019.02.15Culture & Public CommentaryCan a Screen Change the Fate of Education?2018.12.14Culture & Public Commentary“Leisure” as “Responsibility” — Why Must We Critique Capitalism?2021.01.05All posts
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Culture & Public CommentaryMachines Can Ban Accounts, and Regulators Must Also Explain—On the Uber Case and the GDPR2026.08.24
Culture & Public CommentaryDEI Must Start from Equality for All (Starting from the A’erdai Incident)2026.08.18
Culture & Public CommentaryCriticizing Meta Does Not Mean Letting the Government Become the Product Manager—On “The Medium Is the Message,” Parental Responsibility, Corporate Deception, and State Paternalism2026.08.13
Culture & Public CommentaryWomen’s Sports Are Not an Identity Alliance—On Transgender Participation in Competition2026.08.10
Culture & Public CommentaryOn Wang Hong, Math Olympiad Competitions, and the Freedom to Run Schools2026.07.31
Culture & Public CommentaryOn Identity Impersonation, Freedom of Speech, and the Algorithmic Roots of Content Farms2026.07.28
Culture & Public CommentaryIf Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation2026.07.20
Culture & Public CommentaryAfter Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society2026.07.14
Culture & Public CommentaryA Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism2026.07.12
Culture & Public CommentaryHu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand2026.07.06
Culture & Public CommentaryFrom “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears2026.06.24
Culture & Public CommentaryFreedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality2026.06.24