Essays/News
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The Space Between the Wall and the Stove
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How Hong Kong’s Most Essential Workers Are Never Allowed to Belong I have written before about the space between the wall and the stove. 攝灶罅. The…
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The Barrister Who Swore an Oath and Then Demanded the State Be Overthrown
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Where Was Universal Suffrage in Her Defense? On August 21, 2026, a panel of three judges at Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance convicted Chow…
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Qatar Gave America a Free Plane and People Are Furious. Qatar Gave the Clintons Millions and Nobody Cared
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I was sitting on the couch when the news broke. Ruth looked up from her phone and said, “Qatar gave America a plane and people…
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The Comfort Playbook: How Cathay Pacific and Banyan Tree Turned Their Failures Into My Problem
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Or, How Two Corporations Taught Me That Indifference Is a Business Strategy As many of you already know, I grew up in Adams, Massachusetts, a…
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The Education Gap
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How Hong Kong Will Train You for Free While America Asks You to Go Into Debt. The Educational Gap. I graduated from law school in…
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The Dress Code for the Dead
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On Chinese funerals, casseroles, and the woman who fed me without a shared word between us. I have lived in Hong Kong for over a…
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Ransomware crews are treating Hong Kong shipping as an open door. Regulators just started locking it.
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A cluster of attacks on maritime and logistics firms, combined with Hong Kong’s first ransomware-related enforcement fine, signals a turning point: the era of quiet…
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The Men Who Run In
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150 Years of Volunteers, and a Painting of Goofy Nobody Bothered to Save There is a building on Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts, that used…
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Left on the Shelf
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The Space Between the Wall and the Stove, and Why My Wife Almost Ended Up There When I first came to Hong Kong, I did…