Floating and Education

Floating Life In A Fallen Realm

Jeremiah Jenne | China Books Review | 29th September 2026

Shen Fu, a ne’er-do-well Qing dynasty scion, began composing Six Records of a Life Adrift after his wife’s death in 1803. “At once a confessional, a heartbreaking eulogy, a travelogue, a gardening manual and one of China’s best-loved romantic tales”, the book may have been lost to time if not for a man who found the incomplete manuscript in a second-hand book stall and had it published, 70 years later (2,600 words)

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On Education

Musa Al-Gharbi | Symbolic Capital(ism) | 28th September 2026

Detailed essay about education in America. None of the experiments to end social disparities in education have worked because schools cannot erase fundamental differences in ability and life circumstances. “The main reasons elite schools have different outcomes is they just pull from different pools of people: they only admit those already poised for success and then take credit for that success” (13,400 words)