Bias and Betrayal
The extensive rot at the heart of Human Rights Watch.
Gerald M. Steinberg
· 14 min read
Human Rights
A collection of 92 posts
Justice in Stockholm
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
Roya Hakakian
· 19 min read
The Loneliness of the ‘Bridge Man’ Generation
China’s dissenters are isolated. But they are not as isolated as they once were.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
China in the Age of Surveillance
China’s security apparatus may not be able to see into the minds of the people, but it can make their lives a misery in the attempt.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Road to Genocide
The Uyghurs have the potential to threaten China's national unity, which is the real reason we are seeing the largest incarceration of an ethnic or religious minority since the Holocaust.
Aaron Sarin
· 17 min read
The Acquittal of the Colston Four
Both the right to freedom of expression and the institution of trial by jury came under intense scrutiny just three weeks after Raab’s article, when a Bristol jury acquitted four young people of criminal damage, even though they had all admitted tearing down a city centre statue.
Matthew Scott
· 14 min read
Burgis on Hitchens—Getting Radicalism Wrong
I anticipated a more thoughtful exploration of Christopher Hitchens’s political history and relevance than what Ben Burgis provided.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Zemmour’s Final Word
The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round.
RJ Smith
· 10 min read
Gulags Are for Artists Like Me
The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.
Peter Mousaferiadis
· 6 min read
Time for Less Long-Term Thinking About China
Normalization of US-Chinese diplomatic relations in turn led to the biggest exercise in corporate continence in American business history.
Erik D'Amato
· 8 min read
Revisiting Kirkpatrick
Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements.
Niranjan Shankar
· 16 min read
The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization
A week before the massive protests erupted in Cuba, I was celebrating Fourth of July at a friend’s house in Oakland, California, and listening to her tell me stories about her adventures there. She is a Jewish red diaper baby and today seems to identify as some sort of
Clifton Ross
· 6 min read
On the Dangers of Big COVID
One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID.
Michael Robillard
· 14 min read
The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba
Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.
Yvon Grenier
· 13 min read
The Route to Re-Enchantment
Moving from Cain and Abel to Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, with some Egyptian myths thrown in, he reconnects his young audience to the religious tradition that was always theirs to inherit, but from which they have been estranged by their modern education.
Harrison Pitt
· 9 min read