Individuals and Symbols
Whenever a political movement ceases to see people as individuals, and rather sees them as symbols of a class, violence usually follows.
Neema Parvini
· 7 min read
World Affairs
A collection of 146 posts
Notes from the Eye of a State-Sponsored Social Media Storm
The deliberate downplaying of dissent for both Persian and English language audiences is indicative of an attempt to fool Iranians back into submission at a time when the regime has never been more anxious about its survival.
Mariam Memarsadeghi
· 9 min read
Google’s China Ambitions Threaten U.S. National Security
What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?
James D. Miller
· 6 min read
Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?
Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 8 min read
Patriotic Reeducation
Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
The World According to Realism
Realism’s central premise is that relations between states can be explained by the distribution of power in the international system.
Ryan Zielonka
· 9 min read
Democratic Socialism is a Scam
The failure of pundits to discern between democratic socialism and Nordic social democracy is not for a lack of transparency on the part of DSA.
Giancarlo Sopo
· 5 min read
The Dangers of Dugin's Particularism
If Dugin’s ideas are realized, not just by his tiny sect of Russian nationalism, but by waves of emergent nationalism elsewhere, what will be our moral defense?
Robert James
· 7 min read
Zero Tolerance at the Mexican Border
Enacting policies that provide additional border control isn’t a problem in and of itself. Immigration policies are only a problem if and when they go too far.
Kirio Birks
· 8 min read
Censorship and Stereotypes: China's Hip-Hop Generation
The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Thomas Clements
· 6 min read
The China Model Is Failing
Most Chinese and many Western analysts still mistakenly think, however, that China is heading toward a golden future under the current regime.
Eric C. Hendriks
· 7 min read