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Love and Locality: The View from the East

Joel Anselm Dietz

Accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and other related words do not have quite the emotive power in East Asian societies as they do for contemporary Westerns, living under...

Common Sense?

Joel Anselm Dietz

“Paying for what you spend is basic common sense. Perhaps that’s why, here in Washington, it’s been so elusive” So stated Obama, new champion of fiscal responsibility, with commentary...

American Media Blackout

Joel Anselm Dietz

A strange thing happened last week just after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner delivered his speech on United States–China cooperation at Peking University, in which he claimed a U.S. commitment...