Andrew Leonard
@koxinga.bsky.social
Sichuan food, Chinese history, and the Dao. https://andrewleonard.substack.com/
My Mamdani Martini.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My Mamdani Martini.
Just heard my favorite New Order song in a Chevy commercial. Really captured the moment.
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Just heard my favorite New Order song in a Chevy commercial. Really captured the moment.
How could KPop Demon Hunters NOT push its way into a newsletter narrative inspired by magic-wielding Sichuanese female knight errants? I’m just ashamed it’s taken me so long. andrewleonard.substack.com/p/when-fanta...
When Fantasy Becomes Flesh
A story about the assassination of a warlord, with an extended cameo from KPop Demon Hunters. Climbing Mount Emei, Part IV.
andrewleonard.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
How could KPop Demon Hunters NOT push its way into a newsletter narrative inspired by magic-wielding Sichuanese female knight errants? I’m just ashamed it’s taken me so long. andrewleonard.substack.com/p/when-fanta...
The triumph of Silicon Valley. Purposeful flooding the info sphere with inaccuracy and inappropriateness. One of stupidest goddam things humanity has ever done.
August 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The triumph of Silicon Valley. Purposeful flooding the info sphere with inaccuracy and inappropriateness. One of stupidest goddam things humanity has ever done.
Pro tip: if you eat a potent edible half an hour before dogs go crazy barking at tsunami sirens you are likely to a: be confused and b: at peace with your unavoidable fate
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Pro tip: if you eat a potent edible half an hour before dogs go crazy barking at tsunami sirens you are likely to a: be confused and b: at peace with your unavoidable fate
My dad and grandfather bought Tom Lehrer vinyl back in the day and my mom says he was a great teacher of statistics when she was at MIT. At an impressionable age he introduced me to the concept of sarcasm. What a fantastic talent!
July 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My dad and grandfather bought Tom Lehrer vinyl back in the day and my mom says he was a great teacher of statistics when she was at MIT. At an impressionable age he introduced me to the concept of sarcasm. What a fantastic talent!
My series on Leibniz and the Book of Changes took me to some unexpected places, including the Hohenzollerns, Taiwanese semiconductors, the Tower of Babel... but I really did not expect that it would end with my love for my youngest daughter. open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
How the Internet became the Book of Changes
The conclusion of The Universal Commerce of Light
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March 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My series on Leibniz and the Book of Changes took me to some unexpected places, including the Hohenzollerns, Taiwanese semiconductors, the Tower of Babel... but I really did not expect that it would end with my love for my youngest daughter. open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
A gold wire on this transistor is broken. Re-do it.
¬ After magnifying it 30 times ¬ under the microscope, do the 80 times magnification
No merest blemish
No tiny dent
open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
¬ After magnifying it 30 times ¬ under the microscope, do the 80 times magnification
No merest blemish
No tiny dent
open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
February 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A gold wire on this transistor is broken. Re-do it.
¬ After magnifying it 30 times ¬ under the microscope, do the 80 times magnification
No merest blemish
No tiny dent
open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
¬ After magnifying it 30 times ¬ under the microscope, do the 80 times magnification
No merest blemish
No tiny dent
open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
How, above all, was it possible that so many … revealed such an astounding lack of discrimination and of plain common sense by giving aid to screeching gang of fraudulent political gamblers? open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
How Was It Possible?
The current that drew me from Gottfried Leibniz to curiosity about the remarkable history of the Hohenzollern dynasty and the rise (and fall) of Prussia, led, thanks to a recommendation from my sister...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How, above all, was it possible that so many … revealed such an astounding lack of discrimination and of plain common sense by giving aid to screeching gang of fraudulent political gamblers? open.substack.com/pub/andrewle...
Blowing my mind every other paragraph
December 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Blowing my mind every other paragraph
Reposted by Andrew Leonard
your feed has been blessed by the MAJAPAHIT MONEY PIG
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October 25, 2024 at 3:02 PM
your feed has been blessed by the MAJAPAHIT MONEY PIG
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I wanted to know why Frederick "The Great Elector" William started collecting Chinese manuscripts in the 17th century, so I started digging into Donald Lach's dissertation, "Contributions of China to German Civilization, 1648-1740." Now I cannot stop thinking about this portrait of the Elector:
December 14, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I wanted to know why Frederick "The Great Elector" William started collecting Chinese manuscripts in the 17th century, so I started digging into Donald Lach's dissertation, "Contributions of China to German Civilization, 1648-1740." Now I cannot stop thinking about this portrait of the Elector:
When I quit Twitter the thing I was most unprepared for was how suddenly I was blind to what was happening in Taiwan. No news source could replace the sense of connection generated by the people I followed. But today is a new day. I feel like a missing limb has been restored.
December 14, 2024 at 3:52 AM
When I quit Twitter the thing I was most unprepared for was how suddenly I was blind to what was happening in Taiwan. No news source could replace the sense of connection generated by the people I followed. But today is a new day. I feel like a missing limb has been restored.
As for me, of late I have been distracting myself from news about the present-day world with a dizzying journey into 17th century Chinese-Europe interconnections, featuring Gottfried Leibniz as a main character. andrewleonard.substack.com/p/the-univer...
The Universal Commerce of Light
In which Gottfried Leibniz consults the Book of Changes and invents digital technology. With cameos from Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, Joseph Needham, and eventually, The Chinese Computer.
andrewleonard.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:22 PM
As for me, of late I have been distracting myself from news about the present-day world with a dizzying journey into 17th century Chinese-Europe interconnections, featuring Gottfried Leibniz as a main character. andrewleonard.substack.com/p/the-univer...
A little more than 18 months ago I started an account here, but things were moving a little slow and there was absolutely no China/Taiwan-related conversation. Today I logged in for the first time in well over a year and I am stunned to see hundreds of followers. So let's see what's going on!
December 13, 2024 at 7:19 PM
A little more than 18 months ago I started an account here, but things were moving a little slow and there was absolutely no China/Taiwan-related conversation. Today I logged in for the first time in well over a year and I am stunned to see hundreds of followers. So let's see what's going on!
The San Francisco I believe in.
July 14, 2023 at 1:23 PM
The San Francisco I believe in.
My back yard redwoods on a sunny California afternoon.
July 8, 2023 at 10:41 PM
My back yard redwoods on a sunny California afternoon.