World Affairs - Quillette (Page 10)

Notes from the Eye of a State-Sponsored Social Media Storm

The deliberate downplaying of dissent for both Persian and English language audiences is indicative of an attempt to fool Iranians back into submission at a time when the regime has never been more anxious about its survival.

Mariam Memarsadeghi

13 Oct 2018 · 9 min read

Google’s China Ambitions Threaten U.S. National Security

What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?

James D. Miller

8 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?

Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.

Jeffrey Tayler

1 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Patriotic Reeducation

Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.

Nick Taber

18 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

The World According to Realism

Realism’s central premise is that relations between states can be explained by the distribution of power in the international system.

Ryan Zielonka

12 Aug 2018 · 9 min read

Democratic Socialism is a Scam

The failure of pundits to discern between democratic socialism and Nordic social democracy is not for a lack of transparency on the part of DSA.

Giancarlo Sopo

6 Aug 2018 · 5 min read

The Dangers of Dugin's Particularism

If Dugin’s ideas are realized, not just by his tiny sect of Russian nationalism, but by waves of emergent nationalism elsewhere, what will be our moral defense?

Robert James

20 Jun 2018 · 7 min read

Zero Tolerance at the Mexican Border

Enacting policies that provide additional border control isn’t a problem in and of itself. Immigration policies are only a problem if and when they go too far.

Kirio Birks

19 Jun 2018 · 8 min read

Censorship and Stereotypes: China's Hip-Hop Generation

The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.

Thomas Clements

13 Jun 2018 · 6 min read

The China Model Is Failing

Most Chinese and many Western analysts still mistakenly think, however, that China is heading toward a golden future under the current regime.

Eric C. Hendriks

10 Apr 2018 · 7 min read