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Some Musings on China: Why We Need Not Fear Beijing
The recent ouster of Bo Xilai from the Communist Party can provide an interesting glimpse into the political mechanisms of the Chinese state. The fact that Mr. Bo was dismissed for “corruption” charges...
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What is Europe?
Thomas Brussig, a novelist from the former East Berlin, says he first got to know Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union when he visited during a book tour. During his stay, he recalls being...
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Calls for harsh criticism: my first (of four) graduate school statement of...
Note: this is my statement of purpose (SOP) for a graduate program in anthropology at Emory University. I am also going to apply to Stanford, New Mexico, and Chicago. This is only a rough draft. I have...
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India Moves Toward a Regional Reset Suhasini Haidar, The Hindu France’s troubled obsession with India Blake Smith, the Caravan How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World Bridgett Kendall, Literary...
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A note on the three Californias and arbitrary borders
As many of you may know, there is a proposal to split up California into three parts: north, south and ‘ye olde’ California. This proposal is idiotic on several fronts. For starters the best university...
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Abu Raihan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar from Central Asia, may have discovered the New World centuries before Columbus S. Frederick Starr, History Today Gendun Chopel: Tibet’s Modern Buddhist...
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A Ministerial meeting attended by representatives from 52 African nations was held ahead of the 7th Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD) to be held in Yokohama in August 2019....
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Longtime readers of NOL know I have a strange obsession with Antarctica, and the murder that happened on the continent earlier this week gave me the perfect opportunity to write about the southernmost...
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Eye Candy: the five largest cities in each American state, as constellations
Yup, you read that correctly. Behold: Click here to zoom
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The case for Taiwan’s statehood
When Russia invaded Ukraine a few short weeks ago, some people began to worry that China might try to do the same thing with Taiwan. I didn’t worry about this myself, as China is mostly a paper tiger,...
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