Madman of Chu

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

Saturday, November 21, 2020

President Who?

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Now that Joe Biden has been elected president, it is important to begin planning for the post-presidency of Donald J. Trump. Trump has been ...
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Monday, November 09, 2020

Trump Voters, This Was Not A Close Election

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 It has been almost 48 hours since all of the major news organizations called the presidential election in favor of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., ye...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

An Open Letter to My Fellow Americans

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Dear Friends, Neighbors, and Compatriots,          Congratulations! You have brought our Republic back from the brink of self-destruction. T...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Why We Believe in Stephanie Schmid

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In 2020 it seems quaintly naïve to write about "believing" in a candidate. Who can believe anything anymore? Belief is a sucker...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

Chicken Little is Beginning to Look Like an Optimist

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  As we approach November 3, speculation about the regularity of the upcoming election has become a virtual cottage industry. External circu...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Coming this Fall: The Trump "China Crisis"

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Since the first weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency it has been clear that his re-election campaign would be marked by an unprecedented amoun...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

An Open Letter to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Regarding the Sabotaging of the USPS

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 Dear Governor Murphy,            I write you as a citizen and constituent out of concern for the rights of myself, my family, and my commun...
Friday, July 31, 2020

UPDATE: #RespectTheVote

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Troll’s amorality make him very dangerous, but his laziness, lack of imagination, and overweening sense of entitlement put constraints on ...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

We Need an S.O.S. (Save Our Society) Presidential Campaign, NOW!

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It has long been obvious that the United States would not survive a second Trump term, but in recent weeks it has become less and less cle...
Wednesday, July 01, 2020

I Mourn for Hong Kong, But I Mourn Even More for China

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The new Hong Kong security law passed by the PRC went into effect today, and arrests under its jurisdiction have already begun. Though we ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Why Can't Trump Handle the Pandemic? Why Can't Pigs Fly?

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A question that continues to echo through our politics is "why?" Why has Donald Trump proven so malignantly negligent, ineffectu...
Monday, June 08, 2020

A Tale of Two Presidents

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On July 16, 2009 Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University was arrested on the porch of his home in Cambridge after returnin...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Armageddon is Coming with a Whimper, Not a Bang

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Hemingway famously characterized bankruptcy as a condition that comes on "gradually, then suddenly." With a pandemic sweeping th...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

An Open Letter to Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez (NJ)

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Dear Senators Booker and Menendez,        As your constituent I write to plead for urgent action on your part in response to the Covid-1...
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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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