My earlier postings about defining failure in Iraq have now been echoed in a prominent op-ed by Francis Fukuyama in today’s NYT.  He asks the question that opens up the possibility of starting to learn from the mistakes… Continue reading

     Leafing through Mencius today, I came across a passage that captured the media strategy of the Bush administration.  Remember, for Mencius, the ancient past was a golden age; his present was riddled with war and corruption and dissembling… Continue reading

     It is impossible to avoid hurricane Katrina in the news; so, let’s just go with the flow…      What all this wind and weather calls to mind – at least a Chinese philosophy-influenced mind – is fate… Continue reading

 Donald Trump courting Beijing mega-builder Pan Shiyi and struggling against Hong Kong real estate tycoon Vincent Lo in order to create a Chinese version of his reality TV show…  Confucius was right: If there was an honorable way to get… Continue reading

    I have been thinking more about the previous post and have some more ideas on the question of how  we will know if Iraq is a "failure."   The more common approach is to analyze under what conditions Iraq… Continue reading

     An op-ed in today’s LA Times tells us that the American Democratic Party must define success in Iraq, if it wishes to pose a more effective opposition to President Bush’s foreign policy.  It is only by seizing control… Continue reading

     Here’s a post on how a Confucian-inspired jurisprudence would be against the ideal of "original intent." Continue reading

     Remember what Sun Tzu and his commentator Chang Yu say: Treat captives well, and care for them. Chang Yu: all the soldiers taken must be cared for with magnanimity and sincerity so that they may be used by… Continue reading

     An article in today’s LA Times by Meghan Daum seems apt, following my last post.  She writes about new data from the US Census Bureau that shows that "single, childless households are now the largest segment of the… Continue reading

    A change of pace: a piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 13, 2005.  As you can see, this article built off of the previous LA Times op-ed, but integrates the Anti-Succession Law and the US-Japan announcement.  Am I… Continue reading