Hollywood’s Zero Defect Mentality in the Age of Social Media
In the age of social media, celebrities can more directly get their views, messages, and brand out, but consequently like the rest of us...
Goya's Ghosts
Even if the rare sun-soaked day evoked more a sense of Catalonia than it did Normandy, I wasn’t expecting to see the name of Carles...
Iran Deal Reimagined: Underlying Influences of U.S. Sanctions
In an era of divisive national platforms, the Iran Nuclear Deal provides yet another example of the disparate foreign policy goals of the...
The Era of Constitutional Rot
One phrase I didn’t hear mentioned in the media sphere during the recent government shutdown was “Constitutional Crisis.” An estimated...
State of the Unions
As I write, outside my window, like the boom of a military drum, smoke bombs explode with startling regularity, sending their wispy white...
The Labor Contract in America is Dead. Is German Codetermination a Solution?
Google has seen significant activism this year. Employees first wrote petitions in opposition to Project Maven, a collaboration with the...
Chinese Endgame on the Seas: String of Pearls
Image from Christopher J. Pehrson’s “String of Pearls: Meeting the challenge of China’s rising power across the Asian littoral” The...
What Japan and the Soviet Union can tell us about United States-China Relations
“When the value of the [foreign currency] is seriously distorted in relation to the dollar, this country cannot continue to act as though...
Red Lantern, White House
Zhang Yimou’s 1991 film, Raise the Red Lantern, depicts the lives of four women, concubines of a wealthy man in China’s warlord era. Each...
Vox Populi
Last week, the attention of the political world was gripped by the midterm elections in the United States, where exceptionally high...