“I set no value on objects strange or ingenious” — The Qianlong Emperor Ten years ago, when I was still writing freelance articles in my spare time, I wrote a post for The Week in which I mused about America becoming like China’s Ming Dynasty — powerful but insular, rich but stagnant, arrogantly disdainful of science and […]
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