The most important day in US history is March 20. On March 20, 1778, Benjamin Franklin met King Louis XVI at the Palace of Versailles. It was the pivotal diplomatic event of the American Revolution (1765-1783), and Franklin played a… Read More ›
Beyond Trump’s inability to cultivate understanding lies an important issue. Who shapes the fragments of reality he does absorb? How did his picture of Iran emerge? How far did his picture of Iran emerge from private conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu?… Read More ›
The City College of New York has sat there in Hamilton Heights since 1847, before the US Civil War. In the late 1930s, its canteen was filled with poor immigrant kids, all new to the New World and many of… Read More ›
I find it both hilarious and sad that Americans elected someone who doesn’t understand economics. Indeed, our new president’s ignorance of economics is not just once-fold, but thrice-fold. The dumb, fat American has been an archetype now for decades, but… Read More ›
Some 75 million U.S. citizens will vote for Donald Trump this time around. That’s much more than the total populations of, say, Australia (27m), Canada (42m), or Korea (52m), for example. Why do they vote for Trump? It is not… Read More ›
Preamble I am forever wondering whether I really am a pinko leftist Commie Canadian Euro-Brussels bootlicker who cried into my eco tote bag when Hillary lost… or whether I’m just a rational centrist who realizes that progressive tax regimes help… Read More ›
<소년이 온다> (2014) 글. 한강 리뷰. 그레고리 C. 이브츠 2016년 10월 11일 짙고 짙은 어둠이 현대 한국 사회에 드리워져 있다. 안 그렇게 들리겠지만 북한에서 저질러지는 잔혹한 행위는 아니다. 이 짙은 어둠은 38선 이북의 공포보다 더 소비주의와 산업화에 가깝다. 이 어둠은… Read More ›
“Human Acts” (t. 2016) by Han Kang “소년이 온다” (2014) 글 한강 a book review by Gregory C. Eaves Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 A dark, dark pall hangs over modern-day Korea, and it’s not the atrocities being committed in North… Read More ›
In the early days of the 1950s and 1960s there was a plethora of U.S. military stationed across Korea but a dearth of harvestable grain, food distribution networks, or luxury meals. The desperation and poverty, and man’s ever-blossoming inventiveness when… Read More ›
People often ask me about money laundering. It’s not that complex. First, sell drugs in America. Receive cash. How do you get those millions of filthy USD cash bills into the banking system so that you can actually use it… Read More ›
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