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Introduction
Geopolitics
Beijing’s Grand Strategy
It wants to build a Sino-centric order for ‘socialist market economies.’
Our Broken Engagement with China
The Trump administration needed to reverse unsuccessful policies.
China’s Populist-Nationalist Empire
Xi Jinping has established himself as a pillar of the state.
China as Viewed from Australia
Its growth has been good, and need not threaten American allies.
Why We Might Lose a War with China
In a contest for Taiwan, the mainland would be a formidable foe.
Economic Competition
Is State Capitalism Working for China?
Beijing should not declare victory, but its model cannot be dismissed.
Human Rights
Books, Arts & Manners
‘The Word,’ Made Rugged English in a New Gospels Translation
A review of The Gospels, translated by Sarah Ruden.
The Inscrutable Shirley Jackson
A review of The Letters of Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman.
The Cure for Fundamentalist Thinking
A review of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro.
An Interview with Thomas De Quincey
‘You’re concerned about the decline of rhetoric, aren’t you?’
Can Hollywood Still Make Blockbusters?
A review of The Tomorrow War, starring Chris Pratt.
Sections
Image Processing in the Old West
I have to go and get photocopies of our driver’s licenses, and if that means headin’ across the prairie to find a Kinko’s, that’s what it means.
Transmission Transcript, Mars Terraform Living Unit #1
‘Wait, wait, guys, wait. Did you see this bulletin from Earth?’
The Secretary Shall
Executive orders are so fun! You just write down stuff that you wish would happen, and it all comes true.