@bucephalus424

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. PhD in history from Temple University. Dissertation on economic planning in Czechoslovakia. Interested in many things

 Philadelphia, PA
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Joined December 2017
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I reviewed Francis Fukuyama's new memoir for Defector defector.com/francis-fukuyam…

Francis Fukuyama Is The Last Grandpa | Defector

If you’re not following Francis Fukuyama on Instagram, you’re missing out. His posts exemplify a Boomer picaresque aesthetic: the occasional typo in his captions, pictures of electronic parts that...

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I reviewed Francis Fukuyama's new memoir for Defector defector.com/francis-fukuyam…

Francis Fukuyama Is The Last Grandpa | Defector

If you’re not following Francis Fukuyama on Instagram, you’re missing out. His posts exemplify a Boomer picaresque aesthetic: the occasional typo in his captions, pictures of electronic parts that...

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defector.com/francis-fukuyam…

Francis Fukuyama Is The Last Grandpa | Defector

If you’re not following Francis Fukuyama on Instagram, you’re missing out. His posts exemplify a Boomer picaresque aesthetic: the occasional typo in his captions, pictures of electronic parts that...

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WWII as a struggle between four macro-regional industrial production systems, with three of them using forced labor/slavery - North America (US) and Eurasia (USSR) vs. Europe (Nazi Germany) and East Asia/Southeast Asia (Japan)
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Former Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang, who led the Northeastern Army from 1928 to 1936, dies of pneumonia in exile in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was 100.
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honored to be part of this posthumous open access book by Xiaohong, a friend & a colleague who left us too soon. glad it includes the iconic photo of him reading a big serious book in a HK shopping mall i talked about in my foreword. tinyurl.com/mw3kxhy6
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From Richard Wright's 1956 "The Color Curtain" - could serve as an epigraph to the last half century of Chinese economic development
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This is gonna be major when it comes out
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press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…

A Police State

How the police in Minneapolis used electoral politics to accrue power and avoid accountability.The 2020 murder of George Floyd made Minneapolis synonymous with unjust policing and the pain and...

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I liked Digger, pro Digger, I'm with Digger nation
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10/10/76 Deng Xiaoping writes to Hua Guofeng, congratulating him effusively on defeating the Gang of Four and pledging his loyalty to "Chairman Hua".
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