I went out to protest after the mask ban was announced on Friday and walked from Central to Causeway Bay with a scholar of social movements who was in Hong…
Comparativist Posts
On August 23, a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman shouted “Hong Kong is part of China and its affairs are China’s internal affairs. We will not allow the U.S.…
A recurring them one comes across reading about British thinking about Hong Kong is how vulnerable they felt. In World War II, for instance, the British and Commonwealth forces collapsed…
I’m inclined to view the mask ban as a high risk/high reward gamble by Beijing. I say Beijing instead of Lam because I don’t think she’s calling important shots like…
Whether one is reading Charles Tilly or Erica Chenoweth, the literature on social movements and resistance campaigns usually begin with a recognition that the state is not monolithic. Personally, I…
My political consciousness of a wider world around me – a world larger than Deep South and America – coincided with the 1991 Gulf War. On one side of that…
There is a contradiction between the subterranean and surface-level contours of my political philosophy. On the surface, I am deeply committed to the ethos of liberal democracy. Liberal in the…
I’ve written two essays in the last two weeks warning about both the possibility of North Korean nuclear atmospheric testing and how there is little the US and its Northeast…
[I’m posting this at midnight my time. I’ll add links/references later]. About fifteen years ago during the holiday season in Manila, my wife and about a dozen other strangers were…
Of the many similarities between Donald Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is the question of when one should take him at his word. Prone to bluster, he was serious…