2022/05/12 |
How Russia and China Exploit History to Further Their Interests
The arbitrariness in the way they deal with their own national history helps Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin secure power and justify their policies.
2018/09/21 |
Book Review: Michiko Kakutani’s 'The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump'
Postmodernism writ large is poisoning civic life, and a solution remains elusive.
2017/11/03 |
Xi's 'New Era' Censorship Bans Books, Curbs Curiosity
'What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who would want to read one.' The ideological conformity of the New Era hints at a frightening prospect: that both Orwell and Huxley's fears could be realized simultaneously in Xi Jinping's China.