Ming Wong

Sep 28, 2023 | oxfordpoliticalreview.com | Ming Wong

Review of Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary BeardIn the preface to his magisterial work, The Emperor in the Roman World, Fergus Millar (in)famously asserted that ‘the emperor was what the emperor did.’ For him, it was sufficient for the historical study of social and political institutions to analyse the ‘specific patterns of actions’ which can be observed within those institutions.

Sep 22, 2023 | vancouverisawesome.com | Ming Wong

This is the weekly Amplify newsletter, where you can be inspired and challenged by the voices, opinions and insights of women at The Globe and Mail. Ming Wong is an art director at The Globe and Mail. Though the listing was several weeks old, the seller got back to me and said yes – the off-white jumpsuit I’d been eyeing was still available and yes, she’d take five bucks off. And so I picked up what would be my wedding reception outfit, for about $118 less than the original retail price.

Mar 17, 2023 | oxfordpoliticalreview.com | Ming Wong

Power, broadly defined as the social field of agency, can take many different forms. In this respect, the rise of Octavian—later known as Augustus—offers a particularly salient case for distinguishing between the various forms of power which structure politics. Octavian’s rise may be divided into three phases. In the immediate years after the War of Actium (32–30 BC), Octavian primarily relied on the use of potestas, or coercive force.

Feb 25, 2023 | oxfordpoliticalreview.com | Ming Wong

Review of A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900—60 by Nikhil KrishnanSince the mid-twentieth century, there has been a general perception in the Anglophone world that Oxford is the place to do philosophy. Or, more precisely, the place to do a particular kind of philosophy. Whereas Cambridge might be associated with the contextual study of philosophical thought, Oxford is reputed for its distinctively rigorous approach to the analysis of language.