经济学人:迪士尼 星球大战 迪士尼和神话创造
Disney Star Wars, Disney and myth-making 迪士尼 星球大战,迪士尼和神话创造 How one company came to master the business of storytelling一个公司如何成为兜售故事的商业传奇 FROM a galaxy far, far away to a cinema just down
经济学人:电影与电视 删减血腥镜头(上)
Film and television Blood and cuts 电影与电视 删减血腥镜头 Unusually, some Chinese want more censorship 不同寻常,一些国人期待更严格的审查 A FLYING dagger stabs a Japanese soldier in the heart. Another fighter has his neck
经济学人:电影与电视 删减血腥镜头(下)
China has relaxed a bit since: for a while, one film fan had a blog called Research Centre for Nipples in Chinese Films. 据一位电影爱好者的博客中国电影乳房研究中心所言,自那时开始,中国已经逐渐放开了一些。 Ho
经济学人:美式乌托邦 短命的狂热(上)
American Utopianism 美式乌托邦 Short-lived, much loved 短命的狂热 How American idealists withdrew from the mainstream to create their own paradise美国理想主义者退避俗世,自建天堂。 UTOPIANISM in politics gets a bad press. T
经济学人:美式乌托邦 短命的狂热(下)
Robert Owen, a British mill-owner and reformer, treated private property, along with organised religion and marriage, as a social scourge. In 1825 he bought land for a farm-and-factory commune in Indiana. It attracted farmers, artisans and intellectu
经济学人:解密手机 苹果对抗FBI的对与错
Privacy and security 隐私与安全 Code to ruin? 解密手机? The rights and wrongs of Apple's fight with the FBI苹果对抗FBI的对与错 CITIZENS have a right to both security and privacy. The difficulties arise when these two rights are in
经济学人:丘吉尔的多面人生(上)
Books and arts Book review Winston Churchill's other lives书籍与艺术 书评 丘吉尔的多面人生 Mr high-roller 赌场大亨 No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. By David Lough. 《莫饮香槟:丘吉尔与金钱》作者:戴维洛
经济学人:丘吉尔的多面人生(下)
Visiting Cuba in 1895, during its war of independence from Spain, he travelled unperturbed through some of the island's most dangerous territory while writing for the Daily Graphic. 1895年,丘吉尔到了正在为脱离西班牙统治而战斗的古
经济学人:日本的刑事司法 屈打成招
Criminal justice in Japan 日本的刑事司法 Forced to confess 屈打成招 Suspects in Japanese police cells are far too vulnerable to abuse日本监狱里的政治嫌犯极其脆弱,易受欺凌 ON THE face of it Japan's system of criminal jus
经济学人:美国迎来超级星期二 美国大法官沉默十年开口
Super Tuesday in America saw a dozen state primary elections in the presidential nominating process. Hillary Clinton reinforced her position as the front-runner in the Democratic race, winning Texas, Georgia, Virginia and Massachusetts. Bernie Sander
经济学人:美国堕胎问题 重返公堂(上)
Leaders Abortion in America Back in court 社论精粹 美国堕胎问题 重返公堂 It may poison the 2016 election, but the Supreme Court should strike down Texas's restrictive abortion law堕胎问题的争论或许会阻碍2016年大选,但最高
经济学人:美国堕胎问题 重返公堂(下)
The Supreme Court itself has already endorsed limits after 24 weeks, the point at which a fetus is considered to be viable outside the womb, putting it squarely alongside public opinion. 最高法院本身已赞同怀孕24周后禁止堕胎,因为此
经济学人:沙特阿拉伯的女人们(上)
Women in Saudi Arabia 沙特阿拉伯的女人们 One step forward, one step back 进一步,退一步 Progress for women is going into reverse under the new king 在新任国王的统治下,女性地位的进步又倒退了 WHEN Hind Al-Otaibi we
经济学人:沙特阿拉伯的女人们(下)
In Riyadh and in Jeddah, though not in a few more liberal places such as Qatif, the clericswho always opposed female participation in the electionshave stopped the new female local councillors from sitting in the council chambers with men. 在利雅得
经济学人:流行病 预防不足
Pandemics 流行病 An ounce of prevention 预防不足 Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared 传染病导致的危机已经越来越常见,世界应该做好更周全的准备 ONE of the soberi