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Official Chinese Propaganda: Now Online from the WaPo!
As I never tire of saying, China Daily is my favorite newspaper in the world.But it's conceivable that not every visitor to the Washington Post's web site would know the reason for my fondness and...
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Another Kind of American History in Chongqing, 4: Explorers
by Xujun Eberlein(continued from 1. Prologue, 2. Evolution, and 3. Puzzle)Sun Danian is very frustrated that no one dares to publish her new book, Exploring SACO, 160,000 words resulting from nearly 20...
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Chastened by History?
By Andrew SprungIn late 2002, I wrote an unpublished essay tabulating the various historical analogies that had been deployed in the media in efforts to shed light on the pending U.S. invasion of Iraq....
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More on Madison's Nightmare
by Chuck Spinney I received the following email from Robert Jordan Prescott, who asked "How does our defense budget compare with the defense budgets of other nations?"I put together the following...
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Today's Found Art (Super Bowl Edition)
Thanks to reader R.L., an entry that combines sporting and religio-legal themes: Previously in the found-art series here, here, and here. Sometimes these juxtapositions are genuinely innocent; others...
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Another Kind of American History in Chongqing, 5: Revision
by Xujun Eberlein(Continued from 1. Prologue, 2. Evolution, 3. Puzzle, and 4. Explorers)Li Hua has been the director of the SACO museum for 25 years. He has published many books about SACO, Red Crag,...
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Three-Dimensional Visionaries
by Bruce J. HolmesI have a full-scale copy of a map, originally printed in 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, "Hydrographer to H.R.H the Prince of Wales." I am captivated by the title: "A Map Exhibiting all the...
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The Howling Wilderness of Carbon Credits
By Chuck SpinneyOne of central causes of the financial meltdown was the lack of transparency in the complex derivatives, like bundled mortgages and credit default swaps. Advocates of global warming...
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Are Republicans or Democrats Better for the Economy?
By Chuck SpinneyThis is my last post and I want to thank Jim and Justin [Miller, of the Atlantic web team] for the wonderful opportunity to be a guest blogger. It has been a fun gig, but quite frankly...
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Times Headline Deploys Adjective...or Verb?
By Andrew SprungIs it worthwhile delving into the mind of a New York Times headline writer? Why not? Consider:As Mubarak Digs In, U.S. Policy in Egypt Is ComplicatedMomentous question of the morning:...
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Please Welcome the New Team: Bennett, Chou, Comstock, Glucroft
I am very grateful to this second week's shift of guest bloggers, who have written about so many issues in such diverse ways. (For thanks to the first week's crew, click here. My gratitude extends...
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The Only Thing I Will Say About Super Bowl XLV
While waiting for the new shift of Guest Bloggers to arrive tomorrow...I did dearly love that Eminem commercial for Chrysler, right down to the inspired sign-off line, and wanted to see it again. In...
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Steve Jobs, Dick Cheney, and a Bullfrog Walk Into a Bar ...
by Tony Comstock"It's hard to look at today's Internet and feel that it's short on sexually explicit material." –James Fallows, "A Different Aspect of the Internet and Freedom Story," 7/9/2010Hello,...
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Crowdsourcing China Labor Strikes
by Ella ChouChina Strikes is a great new example of crowdsourcing. It maps out labor strikes in China on Google Maps and categorizes them by industry.Though the site is just getting started, the...
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Two Wonderful Invitations
by Brian GlucroftI'd like to thank Jim for the invitation to guest blog on his site. My feelings largely mirror those Tony Comstock expressed earlier today in his thank you paragraph. While it's...
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Ways of Showing/Ways of Seeing
by Tony Comstock"If an adult human that knew nothing about the Wall were in a shuttle looking out the window, would they go 'Oh hey look! A wall!'?" –A J. Fallows Contributor, "A Thought Experiment:...
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Ride Like You Want To
By Lizzy BennettIn the 1990's rom-com "Singles" that was an instant classic for my sisters and me, there's a scene where a hunky man confesses on a video dating spot, "I like the way the world looks...
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Climax Ecology: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees
by Tony ComstockIn the course of my education I took two graduate seminars. One was on postmodern art history, and the other was on the ecology of the Siskiyou Mountains. I took the art history seminar...
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U.S.-China Cyber War Scenario in the Eyes of a Chinese Student
by Ella ChouThis winter, I cut my European trip short to be back in snow-covered Boston for an intensive course at Harvard Kennedy School on cyber security, taught by Richard Clarke and Eric Rosenbach....
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Will Amy Chua's 'Tiger Mother' Methods Create a New World Order?
by Brian GlucroftAmy Chua's recent article on Chinese mothers' "superior" child-raising methods has created quite a stir, and James Fallows earlier made his own comments on it. I feel compelled to...
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