Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee probably did not consider this tale when he composed his influential book about cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies,” but it seemed somehow pertinent to my perplexity.

The emperor tells them that he wants the nicest clothes. “What can you do for me?” The eldest brother tells the emperor that they can make him a spectacular garment from the finest fabric.

As a child, one of my favorite things to read was fables. Whether it was the Aesop’s, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Lion and the Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, or one of his many others, I read ...

Recently I’ve found myself in settings where earnest, serious-minded people discussed topics that I had difficulty not finding pointless, and the story of the Emperor’s new clothes returned to ...

The 21st century had been one of triumph for the Chinese Communist Party. ‘The emperor has no clothes’: Why China’s reputation for economic management is coming undone. Share.

Danish fabulist Hans Christian Andersen wrote a wonderful story, The Emperor’s New Clothes, about a king who walked around in his underwear in the misguided belief that everyone could see his ...

In Hans Christian Andersen’s fable, an emperor is swindled into buying “invisible” new clothes until a child points out what fawning courtiers could not admit: the man is walking around naked.

Xi Jinping’s regime is like the emperor with no clothes: terrified of being found out. And the problem is that for far too long the rest of the world has gone along with it. For too long the rest of ...

Every schoolchild knows the story of the Emperor’s new clothes. After years of preparation and bureaucratic self-deception, the Emperor was finally prepared to model his invisible robes. His ...