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What Do John Dewey s Century-Old Thoughts on Anti-Asian Bigotry Teach Us? Historians/History by Charles F. Howlett
Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus, Molloy College. He is the co-author of John Dewey: America’s Peace-minded Educator (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) and currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Peace History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
John Dewey with wife Alice Chipman Dewey and other Chinese educators, c. 1920.
Whether or not one agrees with Pulitzer-prize winning historian Richard Hofstadter’s observation that the famous philosopher John Dewey’s “style is suggestive of the cannonading of distant armies: one concludes that something portentous is going on at a remote and inaccessible distance, but one cannot determine just what it is” or the noted Harvard pragmatist, William James, who opined that his writings are “damnable; you might even say God-damnable,” it remains hard to ignore Dewey’s
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In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s government’s severe repression of Muslim minorities, principally Uyghurs and Kazhaks. Accounts from a camp survivor and a woman who fled detainment show how, even outside the camps, life in the province of Xinjiang became a prison. The crisis meets the United Nations’ definition of genocide, and the U.S. State Department has also made that determination. With the 2022 Winter Olympics coming up in Beijing, what can the world do about Xinjiang?
Why Has China Targeted Minorities in Xinjiang?