by Ethan Casey | Aug 26, 2019 | Commentary
Anyone who was paying attention on the ground in Kashmir, and listening to Kashmiris, 25 years ago – as I was, as an independent reporter based in Bangkok – would find the current situation there depressingly unsurprising. Nothing has changed, except for the worse....
by Jeb Wyman | Jun 2, 2018 | Commentary, Economy and business, Film, Jeb Wyman
The Florida Project opens with the camera three feet off the ground, eye-level with children sitting in the Florida sun, their backs against the pink stucco wall of the decaying motel where they live. The kids conspire to make their way to the second-floor breezeway...
by Dennis Rea | May 18, 2017 | China, Commentary, Dennis Rea, Live at the Forbidden City, Uncategorized
In the Epilogue to my Blue Ear Books title Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan, I reflected ruefully that the China I’d described in the narrative, which had still retained much of its aesthetically rich pre‒twentieth century...
by Dennis Rea | Dec 7, 2016 | China, Commentary, Dennis Rea, Live at the Forbidden City, Music
A while back I released the album Views from Chicheng Precipice, a sort of audio counterpart to my Blue Ear Books title Live at the Forbidden City, both being end results of my experiences within Chinese culture. Hoping that Chinese listeners might take interest in my...
by Pervaiz Lodhie | Nov 2, 2016 | Commentary
No matter who wins the presidential election on November 8, America and Americans have already lost. The damage that has been done is not reversible. Donald Trump has energized a large faction of alienated working-class Americans who feel authorized to vent their...
by Pervaiz Lodhie | Oct 8, 2016 | Commentary
Whenever I see a problem, my instinct as an engineer is to try to find a solution. If there is a problem with radicalization of some Muslim youth in America today – and there is – then the solution lies within the Muslim community. There is frustration on every side,...