Whether or not Liu Xiaobo’s 刘晓波 accusations [link to Chinese site] are true, the concept is fascinating. He is accusing Li Xiguang 李希光, Dean of the Tsinghua University School of Journalism, of having different political opinions depending on whether he is writing in English or in Chinese. Li Xiguang is a very peculiar person who [...]
A recent Business Week article about the sole surviving pinball machine manufacturer, Gary Stern, seems as good an excuse as any to write about my favorite pinball machine: Space Shuttle.. In 1984 the pinball industry was in trouble. After the heady days of the earlier 1980′s, when games were built that made most of their [...]
Matthew Harwood has an important article in the Washington Monthly about how failure to embrace Iraqi unions undermined post-invasion reconstruction efforts in Iraq. What’s especially maddening about the U.S. government’s attitude towards the IFTU [Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions] is that organized labor has repeatedly played a vital stabilizing and democratizing role in situations that, [...]