James Traub at Foreign Policy recently wrote an article on America no longer being free. This has prompted some in the China watcher community to wonder whether the U.S., both as a polity and a dominant builder of international order,...
Cross-posted from Quora under the question “What can non-Chinese do to convince the Chinese that they are being oppressed?” I do not think non-Chinese people should do anything. There is a popular saying in China: you cannot wake up a...
Cross-posted from Quora under the question “Did Kant make a mistake when he said that mathematics is synthetic and a priori?” The influential German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously claimed in his Critique of Pure Reason that mathematics contains a body...