This episode of The China Report, hosted by KJ Noh in collaboration with Pivot to Peace, focuses on the recent arrest of two Chinese researchers from the University of Michigan on US federal charges of ‘agroterrorism’. The scientists, Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han, are accused of smuggling biological materials into the country – fusarium graminearum, … Continue reading Academic witch hunt: US arrests Chinese scientists in dangerous escalation The post Academic witch hunt: US arrests ...| Friends of Socialist China
It seems possible that this dulling may contribute to my current state of political fecklessness: while before I felt able to fight, now, with the situation seeming so much worse than in 2016, there are times I wish it would all just go away. I am used to being at least externally “okay,” even when many others are not. Whether rising above or cowering in fear, I lose my capacity to act from a grounded center. The post American Resistance: A Mayflower Meditation by Elizabeth Cutter Ev...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Roy Cohn brought his style of aggressive attacks to our campus. I too often saw him, an unattractive, thin man, agitated and angry, standing on a platform, holding a megaphone, giving speeches to my fellow students in the quad, yelling at the top of his lungs, “The red sea of Communism is spreading over us all!” as he grimaced and pointed below to the crowd of booing students. As one of the few girls in this crowd, I stood among them, appalled, but silent and terrified. The post Red Scare...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Campus novels! Aren’t they great? I say that, but my personal history with them is the dictionary definition of patchy. Most of the ones I can think of (Tom Sharpe, Lucky Jim, White Noise) I’ve either actively disliked or have zero memory of. I think I’ve had the most luck with American ones. I know […]| Somewhere Boy