Freedom and Culture
On possession, exercise, time, and what becomes sharper at the edge.
The three tables in Vegas
Europe, America, and China imagined as three very different casino tables.
青海游后感
关于腹地、边疆,以及文化差异所创造的空间。
America’s Interior and the Turn to Populism
What happens when a country forgets the interior that still belongs to it?
胡思乱想
一篇尚未写完的手记,关于环境、机会与家庭。
Deconstructing an Idea
Why abandoning a belief can take longer than forming it.
The Idea of Class
Airplane cabins as a way to think about class, visibility, and upward mobility.
Closed and Open Systems
A choice between the recurring cost of loneliness and the threshold of shame.
Time, Risk, and the Person Holding the Asset
Assessing an asset is incomplete without assessing your own relationship to time and risk.