Imagine it’s midsummer Tiananmen Revisited. Students from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Radcliffe, Columbia, Vassar, Smith, Brown, Wellesley, Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn are demonstrating outside the White House and flooding the Washington Mall with Dolce & Gabbana hoodies. They’ve been there for six weeks and, as their number has grown, their mood has darkened: corruption has triggered […]
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The coronavirus pandemic will change the world order forever. When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, institutions in many countries will look as if they have failed. It is not a question of whether this judgment is correct from an objective point of view. The reality is that after the coronavirus, the world will never be
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People often ask, “Why is democracy considered to be a good system of government when most voters are not capable of critical thinking and are in fact easily manipulated?” Democracy is an aspiration, not a system, that aspires to government of the people, by the people, for the people. Western elites consider Athenian Democracy–which is
Q: When Covid come to America? A: The Coronavirus might have been spreading quietly in humans for years, or even decades, without causing a detectable outbreak: Dr.Francis Collins, Director, The National Institutes of Health. *** Why do people ask when Covid came to America? During the 1976 presidential campaign, Swine Flu struck Gerald Ford endorsed
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Godfree Roberts, author of Why China Leads the World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom, publishes the weekly China newsletter, Here Comes China! After completing his undergraduate education at the University of Queensland Godfree received his doctorate from UMass, Amherst, and lived in–and studied–five cultures. His newsletter, Here Comes China!, reflects
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How should we judge the top ten China books in 2021? The best China books are those that explain China’s amazing success–not those that constantly predict its failure. The Top China Book in 2021 is… Imperial China, 900–1800, by F.W. Mote. Mote’s wonderfully readable book is the essential starting place if you want to understand
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