Opinions on Oathgate are a multi-faceted thing. What I aim to do in this post is bring data from a recent poll I conducted into the conversation. Data is something sadly…
Category: Politics
In a bit of news, I’ll plan to take a break from academia starting this summer and will try to turn this Comparativist project into something more professional. My intention…
Sometimes you make predictions that you hope were wrong. One such prediction was my Red Dawn at Malacañang essay, written just after Duterte won the presidency in the 2016 election.…
I have half-jokingly considered myself a political refugee from the United States and as such I am no stranger to problems my home country faces. Half-jokingly, I sent an e-mail…
I’ve just returned from a week-long trip to Chengdu for a final consultation with an NGO operated by a friend who I first met during my M.Ed research in the…
I’ve been struggling to make sense of what I see as the central contradiction of the ‘Xi’s Era’ – his focus, if not obsession, with ideology and ideological discipline. Let…
Where to begin? Maybe with the end of the night – which was now 7 am – sitting outside McDonalds about a mile from the ongoing riot. Sitting with a…
This is Part I of Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? Ivan Krastev wrote an op-ed for the New York…
Ernest Renan was right when he wrote over a century ago: “Forgetting, and I would even say historical error, are an essential factor in the creation of a nation, and…
I want to respond to Kroeber’s recent argument that, “the Chinese state is not fragile.” it instead a “strong, increasingly self-confident” regime “without organized opposition.” After trying to turn conventional wisdom…