Any suggestions for this week’s Friday I Ching blogging?  I will happily consult the oracle on any question you think important, but it has to be a big question of public concern… Continue reading

     This story has been all over the place: The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle… Continue reading

     George Bush and Condi Rice should read Mencius, and maybe even the Tao Te Ching.  I say this because it seems that there has been a change in US strategy toward North Korea, a welcome change away from… Continue reading

    At this point, Bush opponents should probably recognize that John Roberts will be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.  If there was a battle to be fought, it was last November; and it seems that there will not… Continue reading

    On Monday, Eric Rudolph was given two life sentences after pleading guilty to bombing an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.  He was unrepentant, saying: "Abortion on demand is a return to the ancient practice of infanticide."  Those who… Continue reading

Here’s a Reuters story, via  China Digital Times: In crowded, fast-paced and expensive Hong Kong, where financial success is paramount, depression is a growing problem.  There were 1,000 suicides in 2004, up from 915 in 2000.      It is… Continue reading

    A debate is brewing between Norm Geras and Chris Bertram over how to respond politically to the London bombings.  Norm argues that we should not be distracted by the broad social-economic-political conditions that might have created suicide bombers,… Continue reading

Here’s a brief item from The Press Trust of India, via China Digital Times, that reports: Family-run businesses form the core of China’s private enterprises. More than 90 per cent of three million plus such businesses are family owned and… Continue reading

     This just in:      Bernard J. Ebbers, the founder and former chief executive of WorldCom, was sentenced to 25 years in prison today for his role in an $11 billion accounting fraud that brought down the telecommunications… Continue reading

     Missed the NYT Magazine yesterday (off at Tanglewood), so I was glad to be directed to Jim Holt’s piece on infanticide by Laura over at 11D.  The question of whether society should permit the killing of disabled babies… Continue reading