Donald Rumsfeld has his own take on Socrates mantra that ‘the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.’ Or, in the words of the former Secretary of Defence: There are known knowns; there are known unknowns; there are unknown unknowns; but there are also...
There’s been high praise for the Saturday Paper. If you’ve been – as they say – living under a rock, I’d direct you to the paper’s twitter feed, where many of the comments are retweeted. Unbeholden to 140 characters, let me try and capture the flavor of those tweets:...
Chinese are certainly richer, but can prosperity alone eradicate the roots of public discontent? There’s a widespread misconception in the West that the 1989 student protests that begun in Beijing and spread to other parts of China can be neatly categorized as a...