Archive - Subtopical

The West Wing has become reviled and loved for the wrong reasons

Aaron Sorkin’s White House drama was a rebuke to Clinton neoliberalism, but the show is now wildly misremembered by both liberals and the socialist left

Mar 15 •

August 2023

Hong Kong is unrelated to Taiwan's fate

Beijing’s crackdown on the 2020 Hong Kong uprising is often presented as a warning for Taiwan, but the circumstances and relationships to China cannot…

Aug 20, 2023 •

July 2023

China’s Scotland analogy supports Taiwanese sovereignty

Third (and probably last) in a series of "banned" Taiwanese op-eds

Jul 21, 2023 •

Whose airline is it anyway?

Taiwan cannot change the name of its national carrier without risking severe repercussions, but its citizens support China's territorial claim through…

Jul 18, 2023 •

Taiwan's plan for Czech Republic exhibit sends the wrong message abroad

Loaning China's historical artifacts to foreign countries while claiming they weren't stolen only raises uncomfortable questions that the Chinese can…

Jul 12, 2023 •

American hegemony is the real obstacle to Taiwan peace

Working at Taiwan’s de facto state newspaper provided a convincing look at how conflict with China is being amped up for political gain while the public…

Jul 4, 2023 •

April 2022

Covid and the biopolitics of human sacrifice

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben shows how we are willing to reduce classes of people to "bare life," regardless of the costs to society at large

Apr 2, 2022 •

February 2022

Joe Rogan tied to the stake while Bill Maher gets a free pass

Two talk show hosts have broken the Covid narrative, but one gets cover from the establishment

Feb 9, 2022 •

January 2022

The artless revelations of centrism

How an absence of intellectual thought backing up lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine passports reveals that today's "liberalism" is actually…

Jan 17, 2022 •

December 2021

The medium is the message, the pass is the point

A follow-up to my first post, re-edited for The Brownstone Institute

Dec 21, 2021 •

Future headlines, and perhaps hope?

A bit of satire goes stale overnight, indicating a possible turn in media fearmongering

Dec 8, 2021 •

November 2021

The boy who cried "variant"

The fear dial is being cranked up to 11, and hopefully now more people will begin to ask essential questions

Nov 27, 2021 •

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