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Certain truths seem inimitable, like: Age is just a number.  Wrong! Age is a word. Friedrich Nietzsche helpfully explains in Human, All too Human (1878), “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”  Postmodernist, post structuralist, post “Life Jim, but not...

The College Admissions Bribery Scandal of 2019, known as the Operation Varsity Blues Scandal, involved celebrities using their financial power of over US$25 million over 8 years to hire SAT takers to fake SAT scores, bribe coaches and college...

Apart from some lecture from whatever moral authority, can you really point out why exactly honesty is good? To answer this question, let’s go back to ancient China. The Warring States. Chaos and turbulence. A determined philosopher who trekked across...

"Nothing in the worldIs as soft and yielding as water.Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,Nothing can surpass it." Preeminent Chinese philosopher, Laozi (老子) The Old Boy, Laozi, is one of China’s most renowned philosophers. Hailing from Quren, a hamlet in...

While we speed along in a high-speed train on our way to Shanghai through the water towns of southern Jiangsu Province; Wuxi, Suzhou et al, it’s sobering to think that a little more than a decade ago, not only...

Chesna Goel from Nanjing International School reminds us on the importance of reducing our water footprint. “Don’t! We don’t want your money; just get us some food and water, please!” Last year during the holidays, my family and I went to...

Do you get the feeling that whenever something good happens, something bad is almost certain to follow? I’m sure that almost everybody has experienced this in one way or another, at one point. There is some truth in the...

At the core of every culture, within their respective holidays and customs lie an almost inherent tradition of gift-exchange.  From striped-ribbon boxes that sleep under a tree, to envelopes that don a rich red hue, the idea of “gifts” has...