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Star Trek and the Postmodern Generation

By admin On 2016/04/13 · Add Comment · 5,371 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 13 April 2016.)At its best, it demands and encourages us to adopt a new pluralist mindset that embraces more than just tolerance for other practices and viewpoints: it must affirm and celebrate diversity. This is still troubling and will be stressful. The celebration of cultural diversity, in turn, demands the adoption of eclecticism.
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Boldly Moving Forward

By admin On 2016/04/13 · Add Comment · 2,450 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 13 April 2016.)
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Two Interpretations of the Intergenerational Socioeconomic Divide

By YueChim Richard On 2016/04/06 · Add Comment · 2,417 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 6 April 2016.) Members of the emerging young generation are no longer confident that humanity will be able to solve the world’s great problems or even that their economic situation will surpass that of their parents. They view life on earth as fragile and believe that the existence of humankind is dependent on a new attitude of community cooperation rather than individual competition. …… They have become influenced by the postmodernist mindset.
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Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz is misdiagnosing what’s behind the growing anger of the younger generation

By YueChim Richard On 2016/04/06 · Add Comment · 2,178 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 6 April 2016.)
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Political Reform or Livelihood Issues?

By admin On 2016/03/30 · Add Comment · 2,355 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 30 March 2016.)if Beijing fails to demand such a standard of its officials on the ground, then everyone will cease to be sober. Whether Beijing likes it or not, it is the sovereign and the only player to wield the powers possessed by former British governors.
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How Hong Kong came to be governed by an oligarchy

By admin On 2016/03/30 · Add Comment · 4,069 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 30 March 2016.)
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Hong Kong Youth Activism and Parallels with German History

By admin On 2016/03/23 · Add Comment · 2,539 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 23 March 2016.)I hope young men and women who grow up in Hong Kong will not be too tempted by the German philosophical and political ideas that emerged before World War II.
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Why Hong Kong’s youth anger has parallels with German history

By admin On 2016/03/23 · Add Comment · 2,421 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 23 March 2016.)
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The Three Faces of Liberalism

By YueChim Richard On 2016/03/16 · Add Comment · 3,256 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 16 March 2016.) Imposing a solution from above is unlikely to work, as the failures of past efforts here and elsewhere have demonstrated. When we have a “liberalism of deep diversity”, a top down solution will fail even more totally. It requires power to be shared.
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The three faces of liberalism, and why power needs to be shared in Hong Kong

By YueChim Richard On 2016/03/16 · Add Comment · 2,926 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 16 March 2016.)
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Historicism, Postmodernism, and Political Violence: The Closing of the Human Mind

By YueChim Richard On 2016/03/09 · Add Comment · 2,629 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 9 March 2016.) A concoction of postmodernism and historicism will not bode well for the future of liberalism.
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The Closed Young Minds

By YueChim Richard On 2016/03/09 · Add Comment · 2,577 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 9 March 2016.)
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Closed Minds and Rising Political Violence

By admin On 2016/03/02 · Add Comment · 2,661 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 2 March 2016.) Economists at their worst wreck only economies; political philosophers with closed minds wreck politics, and with it everything else.
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Hong Kong’s Youth are Getting Obsessed with this One German Export

By admin On 2016/03/02 · Add Comment · 2,852 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 2 March 2016.)
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Rising Political Violence and Socioeconomic Transformation

By admin On 2016/02/24 · Add Comment · 3,348 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 24 February 2016.) I hope the violent unrest, although heart-wrenching and deplorable, will be a wake-up call for attention. Socioeconomic deprivation and rising inequality do not necessarily turn into political unrest, much less violent unrest. But the protests are not without sympathetic support. For this one must seek answers from developments in the intellectual and political space.
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