Nightswimming 夜泳

Nightswimming deserves a quiet nightThe photograph on the dashboard, taken years agoTurned around backwards so the windshield showsEvery streetlight reveals the picture in reverseStill, it's so much clearerI forgot my shirt at the water's edgeThe moon is low tonight 夜泳配得上宁静的夜来自多年前的照片放在仪表盘后翻向玻璃那面所以看得见每个路灯会打出对称的照片但场景仍然更清楚了我的衣服忘在了水边月亮低低地挂在今夜 Nightswimming deserves a quiet nightI'm not sure all these people understandIt's not like years agoThe … Continue reading Nightswimming 夜泳 →

「保守主义的精神」：自由的最后一道屏障

距离保守主义的诞生过去了两百多年，距离罗素·柯克（Russell Kirk）发表《保守主义的精神：从柏克到艾略特》也已经近70年。倘若如今我们仍然热爱并追求自由，便无法绕开以柏克为代表的保守主义学者及他们的著作。本文旨在通过个人视角对《保守主义的精神》一书中最令笔者动容的思想及托克维尔，以及哈耶克，诺克等本书未提及的被广泛认为其思想与主张隶属于保守主义的学者们的著作进行阐述，希望以此在当今日益左转的世界中多寻求一份自由的保障。

Educated：独立成人

"That night I called on her and she didn't answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education."

一年了

整整一年前的今天，2019 年 12 月 30 日，我第一次看到新冠的消息。当时离金银潭医院收治第一位感染的病人已经过去了近一个月，已有实验室测序发现是类似 SARS 的新型冠状病毒（注 1）。此时离官方确认人际传播还有 21 天，离武汉封城还有 24 天。