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So a few thoughtshttps://twitter.com/MarkLutter/status/1381597765432659970 When it comes to ancient Chinese texts, we are actually in a boom of translation. More has been done in the last 15 years than the

So there is a critique of liberal society common to both the new right and the social justice left that goes like this. "Liberalism as we know it is premised

New essay: ON SPARKS BEFORE THE PRAIRIE FIRE https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-sparks-before-prairie-fire.htmlMany worry about the possibility of election violence--and what that violence might escalate to.In this essay I consi

The GF asks me an interesting question today that I am not sure I have an answer to: why is national American politics between 1864 and 1898 such a black

This is Not the American Cultural Revolution https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/08/this-is-not-american-cultural-revolution.html In a new piece, I explain why the analogy many people are making between the BLM protests and the Maoist

On cultures that build | new blog post https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-cultures-that-build.htmlA few months ago Marc Andreeson wrote a call for action: "It is time to build." It was a plea from Americans

From a facebook group I am a part of comes these two comments on taking down Lincoln statues at UW.There is just a terrible, terrible brainworm in here. It isn't

I wrote an article a few years ago with the title "Taiwan can win a war with China." It went mildly viral, and all that. Barring some pretty massive internal

"Status" is such a terrible brain worm. All these people thinking evo psych jacked reactionaries and pick up artists are edgy for saying such-and-such is really just about "status." Call

1. It is time for outside countries to start thinking about how to accept/save Hong Kong dissidents. For a long time people thought there would be a wave of out-migration

Lord of the Flies is one of those novels that people remember wrong. People remember its central theme as "take away civilization, and we all turn into Hobbesian little monsters."But

Patrick Daneen has this book where he argues that a bunch of enlightenment philosophers created this thing called liberalism and then unleashed it cruelly on an unsuspecting world. He hopes