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• Ghosts of Christmases Past

  By gceaves on December 11, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Trump & Tariffs

  By gceaves on January 23, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Trump Voters: They Have Their Reasons

  By gceaves on November 4, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• The Most Important Election of our Lifetime

  By gceaves on October 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By gceaves on October 11, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  <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 — a book review

  By gceaves on October 11, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  “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 ›

• Eat Your Way across Korea: Army Base Stew

  By gceaves on July 12, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• How to launder money: a domestic tale

  By gceaves on July 10, 2024 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Happy Fourth of July

  By gceaves on July 4, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Militarily it was a hardpressed time [for the Americans]. A crushing defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August, 1776, had left the British in control of access to New York and the New York coast. Washington had, at… Read More ›

• Are You a Traveler or an Immigrant?

  By gceaves on July 3, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve never bought the travel-as-transformation narrative fluff that’s mongered in such tracts as Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” or in Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love.” Travel, at least the kind of travel so often coded as “real” or “authentic,” as opposed to,… Read More ›