A few days ago, a story in the Diplomat provided the United States and the West with another glimpse at what a China-centric world would look like. Zhanargul Zhumatai is a 47-year-old Kazakh artist and former radio and television editor who…
My parents called it majoring in the minors. I call it the “high school hall-monitor” school of governance. Way back in the eighties, children were given more freedom. My own kids were shocked by the show Stranger Things. The idea…
Steven Mosher, author of Bully of Asia — a book that contends that the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping seeks to “continuously expand its power to achieve [global] hegemony” — recently reached out to four of his friends…
When the dust finally settles and we look back on the COVID-19 pandemic as a matter of history, we may well conclude that the most consequential aspect of the ordeal was not the pandemic itself but rather the explosion in…
Facebook made the metaverse a kitchen table topic when it changed its name to Meta. What is the metaverse, exactly? It’s a virtual world where you can be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor without physically living next to him — yes, you…
As more and more studies demonstrate the devastating impact of school closures on children — including the toll on children’s physical and mental well-being as well as learning loss — new revelations are shedding light on the tactics one school…
Faced with an apparent short supply of crime, today’s woke FBI has risen to the challenge by encouraging and enabling the delusional among us to act out their anti-social fantasies as informants, undercover agents, and hidden electronic devices document and…
So much for starting out 2022 in the spirit of unity. The nation’s leading newspaper used the fresh beginning of New Year’s Day to once again insist that Donald Trump and his supporters are an existential threat to our beloved,…