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China and the West: How to arrive at better understanding of each other

ALTHOUGH China is today among the world’s economic powerhouses, many Westerners are unaware of what an incredible transformation this represents in less than 70 years. China’s long civil war, most of ...

August 31, 2018, Friday

The chilling story of the melting north calls for reflection, action

WE are in the midst of an epic heat spell, with a warning that extreme heat will be more frequent, intense and prolonged with global warming. Gone viral via social media in recent days is a post “With ...

August 17, 2018, Friday

Tsai’s illustrated edition brings to life the wisdom, humor, vivacity of Confucianism

THAT we could have an illustrated edition of the life of Confucius and his Analects is not so remarkable as it first seemed. As Michael Puett observes in his forward to “The Analects,” as adapted and ...

July 20, 2018, Friday

The universe and the meaning of life in the words of a scientist-poet

Like the late Carl Sagan, Loren Eiseley had the great gift of being able to express his thoughts in language that not only made his field of study more accessible to the rest of us, but to also do so ...

July 13, 2018, Friday

Cold War’s complicated legacy and lessons we forget at our peril

THE Cold war — a period that is usually dated from 1946 (or 1947) until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 — continues to influence us today. Indeed, with renewed tensions between Russia and ...

July 6, 2018, Friday

Ongoing legacy of original sin: pervasive racism in America

AT the end of the 1960s it was possible to believe that the US was, at long last, serious about eliminating racism, the poisonous cause and legacy of chattel slavery. After all, segregation had finally ...

June 15, 2018, Friday

China and Latin America moving closer to boost trade and growth

AT a time when some countries are resorting to protectionism in balancing their own economies, China and Latin America are mulling moves to further strengthen trade. Santiago Levy, vice president for ...

April 20, 2018, Friday

The US is teetering on the edge, but could be redeemed by virtues

TWO new books remind me of a line from an old comic strip (Pogo) from my youth: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” While Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” reveals little about the president that we ...

April 13, 2018, Friday

Chinese vision of tianxia: a model for global peace and governance

CHINESE philosopher Zhao Tingyang, in an article titled “Can this ancient Chinese philosophy save us from global chaos?”, suggested the Chinese concept of tianxia as a way to achieve global governance. Tianxia ...

March 30, 2018, Friday

Ruled by numbers and measures, we compromise our performance

WE live in an age ruled by numbers, even though quantifying human performance compromises our performance. At the beginning of “The Tyranny of Metrics”, author Jerry Z. Muller quotes Aaron Haspel as ...

March 23, 2018, Friday



 

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