Hong Kong

Hong Kong lecture: “NEO-ENLIGHTENMENT ART AFTER POSTMODERNISM”

Where does art go after postmodernism? My lecture in Hong Kong — in which I discuss the historical examples of Classical Athens, Renaissance Florence, the Dutch Golden Age, and nineteenth-century Paris — is at YouTube. Here also are the text in English (with images) and the condensed translation into Cantonese. Part 1: Part 2: Thanks

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Argentina, Hong Kong, and the psychology of belief

Over the last 80 years, the world rankings of Hong Kong and Argentina: Resource-poor Hong Kong’s relatively laissez-faire free market has taken it from poverty to riches. Resource-rich Argentina’s experiments in statism have taken it from prosperity to decline and semi-functionality. In this Wall Street Journal/Heritage ranking, Hong Kong is currently first in the world

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