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More and more, sending your kids off to college is like paying big bucks to take them to an outrageously overpriced restaurant despite knowing that you’re going to get food poisoning, and despite knowing that the waitstaff are going to try to make your kids hate you. Why on earth do we keep doing it? Well, because our kids need to show the receipt for that terrible dining experience to prospective employers if they want to land a job. It’s madness. Things aren’t getting any bette...

John R. MacArthur Is a Disgrace The Harper’s publisher’s latest column, about a controversy at The New York Times, goes out of its way to use an ugly racial slur. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images Is there a more embarrassing column on the internet than the Publisher’s Note at Harper’s? This is where you can find the addled musings of John “Rick” MacArthur, the mercurial proprietor of what was once one of this country’s most influential liberal magazines but in recent years has...

China is so distant, big, and complex that each Marco Polo nowadays tells a different tale. The authors of the three books under review—a cool Swedish journalist, a passionate Chinese true-believer, and a philosophical Frenchman—give very different impressions of Chairman Mao’s revolution. Unencumbered by first-hand contact ourselves, we Americans can judge only at second-hand whether Mao’s China is working or in deep trouble, expansionist or merely defensive. These questions will becom...

By A version of this column originally ran in  Le Devoir on March 1, 2021. Translated from the French by John Cullen. The escalating lunacy of what is considered the politically correct code of conduct, temporarily suspended during the American presidential campaign, firmly reinstated itself last month in the messy “McNeil– New York Times affair,” and everyone who’s concerned for the future of free speech in the United States ...

August 1, 2012 Gerard Lemos is former visiting professor at Chongqing Technology and Business University and former chair of the British Council. His book, The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese people fear the future, is published by Yale University Press. Read this article at The decision to cancel the metal refinery project in Shifang last month after protesters clashed with the police has been widely reported in the Chinese and global media. This is not the first time a project has bee...

Why does cancel culture, which is so demonstrably limiting, harmful, and antisocial, continue to be on the rise in America?

Commentary As Americans, we have had it good for so long that we often take important things for ...

What is going on here? Doug Casey: When you tax unrealized capital gains—as they do with foreign stocks in a number of countries, like New Zealand, where it made my life expensive and miserable while I was living there—any stock market assets that you have are marked to market annually. This is a big disincentive to own them because whether you sell the asset or not, you’re going to pay taxes as if you’d sold it. This is why very few Kiwis own foreign stocks. They’re liable to be taxe...

We are in a temporal loop. George Santayana’s 1905 observation that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” remains (ironically?) indelible, but it isn’t even the half of it. Repetition suggests a start, ending, and restart, but really we’ve been marching in place for some 30 years with no tangible resolution to speak of. Advertisement If you want a sense of how far we haven’t come, revisit the PC debates of the early ’90s. Names may have changed but the s...

What will be the result of our cultural revolution?