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Caught Between Worlds Minari, Nomadland, and reflections on Asian-American identity By Jean Kim American Scholar April 22, 2021 Steven Yeun, Noel Kate Cho, Alan Kim, and Yeri Han in Minari “Sometimes I wonder if the Asian-American experience is what it’s like when you’re thinking about everyone else, but nobody else is thinking about you,” the actor Steven Yeun told Jay Caspian Kang in a Februar..

Why Are Conservatives In Despair? Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti ROD DREHER The American Conservative APRIL 23, 2021 As many of you know, David Brooks and I are friends. I can tell you that it’s hard to find a more generous and decent man anywhere. That’s really true, and that, besides my innate loyalty to friends, is why I ball up my internal fist whenever I hear people criticize him harshly. An..

The Egghead Gap If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent. Caleb Watney The New Atlantis Winter, 2021 Issue Science and technology support innovation, economic growth, and military might, making them central pillars of geopolitical competition. For the last three decades, the United States has been mostly unc..

The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions The process has become an intrusive and morally presumptuous inquisition of an applicant’s soul. The Review By Matt Feeney The Chronicle of Higher Education April 16, 2021 This year, Harvard applications were up 43 percent from last year. At Yale, applicants were up 33 percent. At Duke, 25 percent. The result is plunging acceptance rates. Harvard admitte..

The Case for Maximizing Engagement With North Korea FRANK AUM AND DANIEL JASPER 38 North APRIL 16, 2021 As the Biden administration’s North Korea policy review nears completion, there is growing worry that it could dig in its heels on previous US efforts to change North Korea’s behavior through isolation and pressure. Early signals indicate the Biden team is prioritizing pressure among many opti..

What Was America Doing in Afghanistan? The U.S. itself didn’t know—and that was the problem. Wesley Morgan The Atlantic April 14, 2021 The soldiers living in the concrete maze of Combat Outpost (COP) Michigan treated the Taliban fire that poured in from the mountains as though it were weather: Bursts of machine-gun bullets were akin to drizzle, volleys of rocket-propelled grenades more like heav..

1년 2만명 총맞아 죽는 美…드라이브스루 대기 길다고 ‘탕탕’ [중앙일보] 입력 2021.04.15 05:00 기자 서유진 기자 최근 미국 패스트푸드 드라이브 스루 매장에서 손님이 직원과 언쟁을 벌이다 총기까지 휘두르는 사건이 잇따르고 있다. 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증(코로나 19) 장기화에 심리적으로 예민해진 데다 드라이브 스루를 이용하는 이들도 늘어난 영향으로 보인다. "美, 지난해 총기사고 사망 20년만 최다" 미 현지 언론에 따르면 미네소타 주 로체스터에 있는 도미노 피자 드라이브 스루에서 지난 11일 큰 소동이 벌어졌다. 한 남성이 피자를 받은 뒤 토핑을 따로 달라고 요구했지만, 종업원이 "그런 서비스는 없다"고 하자 남성은 격앙된 반응을 보였다. 지난달말 미국 멤피스의 한 드라이브 스루 매장에..

LG leaves behind more than a flip phone-shaped hole in our hearts The company leaves a void that brands like Motorola and TCL are well-positioned to fill By Allison Johnson@allisonjo1 The Verge Apr 11, 2021 LG’sLG’s exit from the smartphone business felt inevitable in the weeks leading up to it as rumors mounted. When it was finally confirmed, Avi Greengart, a longtime consumer tech analyst and ..

EDITORIAL Reckoning with Asian America Science Magaine 02 Apr 2021 It took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta last week to draw national attention to what Asian Americans have been warning about since the wake of the pandemic: anti-Asian violence. The incident reflects an under-recognized history of anti-Asian violence and discrimination in this country that dates back more than 150 y..

The Fight for the Republic by JONATHAN SHAW Harvard Magazine 4.1.21 William "Bill" Kristol. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Kennedy School. IN 2021, THE UNITED STATES failed for the first time in its history to achieve a peaceful transfer of presidential power. The events of January 6, observes conservative commentator William “Bill” Kristol ’73, Ph.D. ’79—and the enabling political rhetoric and ..