Madman of Chu

Politics can not be conducted in ignorance of the history and culture of other nations.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Tragedy and Farce in Syria

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Airstrikes launched against Syria by the Trump administration on April 6 prove Marx's adage about history transpiring first as tragedy, ...
Saturday, April 01, 2017

Donnie and the Nihilists

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I cannot believe I was alone in feeling cognitive dissonance while listening to the testimony of former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts before...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Public Option Now

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The embarrassing failure of the GOP caucus to make good on their six-year pledge to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act i...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

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Watching Donald Trump stand next to Bibi Netanyahu yesterday was an exercise in dizzying optics. However much I vehemently disagree with Pri...
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Trumpty Dumpty or Trumplestiltskin?

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As the second week of the Trump presidency rolls on, the struggle ensues to make sense of the herky-jerky motion of the administration in po...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Trump Travel Ban: Reading the Splatter on the Wall

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President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from 7 Muslim-majority countries (Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Trump's First Test?

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Last Friday the Serbian government sent a train emblazoned with the words "Kosovo is Serbia " to the border between Kosovo and Ser...
Friday, January 20, 2017

An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama

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Dear Mr. President,        I write to thank you for your eight years of service to our country. Though I have disagreed with you on some i...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Mr. Trump, Meet Mr. Godwin, or Mr. Pot, You Must Know Mr. Kettle

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Watching our president-elect compare our intelligence agencies to Nazis on Twitter and at yesterday's press conference must have produce...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Of Strait Talk and Dangerous Bluster

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You cannot truly understand cross-strait relations between Beijing and Taipei until you have visited the Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) Memoria...
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Sunday, December 04, 2016

#Clownarchy Calling

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The moment I realized just how dangerous a Trump presidency could be came back in March, when I watched  a town hall meeting with the prospe...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The South (or the North, or the West...) Will Rise Again, and Again, and Again: Viewing the Electoral College from the Perspective of Chinese History

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On July 20, 1842, during the Opium War, British soldiers and warships captured the garrison town of Zhenjiang, at the juncture of the Yangzi...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

#NotNormal

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The last election leaves the majority of voters facing grave alternatives in responding to the election of Donald Trump. One understandable ...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

An Open Letter to President-elect Trump and His Supporters

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To President-elect Donald J. Trump and My Fellow Americans Who Voted for Him:          I write to you out of a concern for the country tha...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Aboard the Wonkatania, Entering the Tunnel

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There's no earthly way of knowing, Which direction we are going....             My brother, a lifelong Republican, posted these words...
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Madman of Chu
After living in mainland China and Taiwan for four years and in Japan for one year I returned to the U.S. and earned a doctoral degree in Chinese history, which I teach at a college in New York. "Madman of Chu" reflects my belief that the study of the history and culture of other nations is indispensible to the conduct of modern politics. "Marriage Equality Amendment" is devoted to amending the U.S. Constitution to protect the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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