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CHINESE PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS Once I discovered the many articles and books by Chinese intellectuals translated into English, I plunged into Chinese public discourse with enthusiasm. Intellectuals have always played a central role in maintaining the health of the nation, despite restrictions on thought and expression in modern times by the…

I think I may have had my own Baked Alaska moment, and that scares me. — Did you ever want to do something good and ask for help, only to be ignored by the very people you were trying to help? Did you ever have a major milestone get turned into shit because people just didn’t even try to care about it? This book was my…

So, the other day I received my daily fundraising appeal from the Biden team. Except today rather than the appeal coming from Kamala or Joe, it was signed by James Carville, the guy who ran both of Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaigns. ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ was Carville’s signature campaign narrative…

Perhaps we aren’t as righteous as we imagine — Recently, a Quora user asked a question about what problems we, the Internet horde, have with leftists. I kinda wanted to start my answer with “the biggest problem I have with leftists is how easily they turn to being whiny, self-indulgent, virtue signaling pricks too lazy to do the work…

Let’s support social justice and freedom of speech — Whether you like it or not, the term woke has become counter-productive. Whether it means “1.a. aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)” or “2. politically liberal (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way…

Is the Democratic Party once again shooting itself in the foot? — I was watching the YouTube channel for Breaking Points today. I used to watch this when it was on The Hill’s site, because I like the respectful back and forth between an intelligent, insightful progressive and her conservative counterpart. The two of them end up in agreement more often than…

An angry and intolerant younger generation is destroying American democracy (msn.com) Or, How Dare You Be Angry and Intolerant! That’s Our Job! The average, aged and resentful Conservative bellows. Pick a side of the pond, the oldsters in politics see nothing but trouble ahead as an educated, impassioned, strident Liberal-minded…

The United States system of government was founded on liberal principles and the vast majority of American voters are “liberals” — properly understood. In addition to the chaos caused by making up new words out of thin air, we’ve lost sight of the meaning of terms that have been around…

Hello, folks… I’m Anna Rose, known elsewhere as the Evil Overlady. I’m new to Medium, but not at all new to writing, which I’ve been doing my entire life, but only took it on as a profession in the past eleven years or so. My first novel, SIOFRA, was published…