Latest Posts
-
What Would Confucius Say?
Another milestone in the continuing redefinition of the American family: For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of… Continue reading
-
How Many More Times Will The Same Mistake Be Made?
I know I keep saying the same thing: The Executioner’s [i.e. Way’s] killing is perennial, it’s true.But to undertake the killing yourself – that’s like trying to carve lumber for a master carpenter.Try to carve lumber for a… Continue reading
-
Selling Embryos
Over at Slate, William Saletan has a good, link rich, post about a woman who has created a business out of matching sperm and egg donors to manufacture embryos for sale. I haven’t absorbed all of the… Continue reading
-
Bat Mitzvah
My blog silence of the last couple of days (I missed Friday!) was due to a brief family excursion to the Boston area to attend the Bat Mitzvah of a friend’s daughter. It was a marvelous ceremony with… Continue reading
-
What Chinese Want To Know
Virtual China translates Baidu’s (a Chinese search engine) most popular questions for 2006 (hat tip, Roland). Here is the original Chinese page. What a great service! It gives us a sense of the kinds of questions people in… Continue reading
-
“Hobbling the Army”
Bush’s impending senseless escalation of the Iraq war runs squarely against Sun Tzu’s thinking (I know, lots of Sun Tzu this week: it’s on my mind from my class…). It seems that high level military planners are doubtful… Continue reading
-
The Tao of Gators
A commenter, "Dave of the Coonties," over at WaPo’s Achenblog, noted that I had not yet analyzed, from the point of view of Sun Tzu, the University of Florida’s victory in the college football championship. I am happy… Continue reading
-
Is Sun Tzu Wrong About Speed?
Here at Williams, where I work, we have a "Winter Study," an inter-semester short term, just the month of January, during which students take one condensed "course". (I have a variety of gripes about Winter Study which I… Continue reading
-
Sad China and Master Chuang
China Daily today tells us: A survey conducted by chinahr.com, a leading Chinese recruitment website, shows over 90 percent of white collars felt anxiety and depression as the past year came to an end and a new year… Continue reading
-
Modern Love: Fade to Black
A beautiful piece this week by Patty Dann. She recounts her husband’s diagnosis of, and ultimate death from, a rare brain cancer. There is a deep sadness in the story, but an elegant wisdom as well. Dann does an… Continue reading
The Useless Tree 