Chinese Law Professor, Xu Zhangrun, was reportedly recently released from detention by the Chinese government. Prior to his detainment about a week ago Xu was notable as one of the very few Chinese academics, or other Chinese nationals of note, who had been allowed to openly criticize the Chinese Communist Party in general, and level […]
Ahmed Evans was self-styled Black Nationalist that was involved in a shoot-out with officers of the Cleveland Police Department in 1968 in Cleveland’s predominantly African American Glenville neighborhood. His story is largely forgotten today but there are lessons to be learned from Evans’ life, the reaction to George Floyd’s death, and the re-emergence of Black […]
Corporate America made a deal with the devil, or dragon if you prefer, when Corporate America made a deal with the Chinese Communist Party. The deal’s basic outline is that the CCP would provide cheap labor inputs to manufacturers and/or access to Chinese consumers, and Corporate America would turn a blind eye and remain silent […]
Walter Rathenau was a successful German-Jewish industrialist who helped organize Imperial Germany’s industrial production during World War I. Rathenau was a German patriot and some would say his organizational skills were critical to Germany staying in the war for as long as they did. When the war started, he was reported to have said, “On […]
Like so many terms that are bandied about, the term “Western Civilization” is one that does not hold up very well under scrutiny. Western Civilization is said at times to be based on Christian traditions, or perhaps a little broader, Judeo-Christianity, or if pushed some will acknowledge the influence of the Greco-Roman world. The reality […]
I’ve read numerous times how the debate about the Covid-19 restrictions is a debate between “public health” and “the economy.” That narrative is really pretty superficial and misses the point that the restrictions really negatively effect, and has negatively effected, much more than just “the economy”. Here are just a few examples. I work as […]
The Chinese Communist Party through its mouthpieces like the Global Times like to characterize critics of China’s ruling party anti-Asian. At times critics of the CCP do veer into xenophobic rants but a closer look clearly shows that criticizing the CCP is not anti-Asian. The Chinese Communist Party, the only legal party in China, has […]
The American Civil War, fought between 1861 and 1865, was one of the greatest examples in recorded history of military action undertaken by one people to free another from subjugation. Certainly the motives of those on both sides of the conflict were complex, and not altogether either altruistic or depraved, but it is hard to […]
Around the year 2000, I had my first experience posting on-line. I’m sure others had been involved in on-line posting much earlier than that, but being a not-so rapid adopter of technology that was my first foray. My reason for posting at the time was to research certain small cap stocks I was interested in […]
When I would read scriptures with my children when they were younger I would often say, “read the words that are there, and don’t read the words that are not there.” I ask the reader in reading this piece to do the same. I am attempting to deal with very contentious subject matter which can […]