by | Oct 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Louis Menand wrote a curious article for the New Yorker called “The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism.” The article is curious on two fronts: First, though published in a progressive magazine, the article is largely judicious and fair to the concept of neoliberalism....
by Eric Kohn | Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
As of this Tuesday, Sept. 26, the billionaire newspaper publisher and human rights activist Jimmy Lai will have spent 1,000 days in a Hong Kong prison for practicing democracy without a license. After some 2 million of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million residents protested...
by Eric Kohn | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
‘It would be so boring just being a businessman,” said Jimmy Lai, as the Chinese government was tightening the noose around Hong Kong. “I want to make my life more meaningful and interesting.” That is why he had gotten himself into trouble, he said. He was loath to...
by Eric Kohn | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Jimmy Lai is a political prisoner in Hong Kong. One of the great businessmen of the East, he is now a symbol of freedom’s struggle against tyranny. His son Sebastien is campaigning worldwide to win his release. I have done a podcast with him, a Q&A, here....
by | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
At the end of August, the Hong Kong government charged a Cantonese language group with “threatening national security.” The latter had posted online an essay, cast in the form of fiction, that emphasized the city’s loss of liberty. Andrew (Lok-hang) Chan, who headed...
by Eric Kohn | Jul 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
What “The Hong Konger” lacks in style as a documentary it more than makes up for in shining a light on the particular values of the Hong Kong heroes like Jimmy Lai standing up to totalitarianism. “The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle For Freedom” is a...
by | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
The European Parliament condemned the persecution of jailed newspaper publisher and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, calling for his immediate and unconditional release from prison and the repeal of Hong Kong’s national security law (NSL), in a resolution passed on...
by | Jun 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Jimmy Lai, the imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist, has lodged an appeal after his previous attempt to challenge a decision made by the National Security Committee was rejected, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. The high-profile...
by | May 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Hong Kong High Court has rejected a request by pro-democracy activist and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai to terminate his upcoming trial under the city’s so-called National Security Law (NSL), according to Reuters. Lai, a well-known figure in Hong Kong’s media...
by Eric Kohn | May 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
The fight to free Jimmy Lai A campaign to free billionaire and pro democracy fighter, Jimmy Lai from a Hong Kong prison continues. Central to the campaign is a documentary detailing his rags to riches story and his commitment to halting the erosion of the rule of law...
