”Am I set to be some kind of stupid reader? Let me meet all kinds of domineering presidents every day”; ” I’m tired, and then…
Day: January 7, 2022
In 2021, the U.S. stock market will present a scene of both ice and fire. On the one hand, the market value of Apple, Microsoft,…
There was an interesting event in the history of world aviation: In 1978, pilot Jay Procino flew a Cessna 188 plane, and was trapped in…
Borges once wrote a short story in which he described a distant land where cartography reached an absurd extreme: mapmakers ambitiously drew a precise map…
Twenty years ago, when I translated and interpreted the anthropologist Clifford Giltz’s “Local Knowledge”, I remembered that he said: In cultural anthropology, there seems to…