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The Party That Failed

Cai Xia, one of the CCP's fiercest critics, chronicles her political awakening for the first time.

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Why I Don't Like Fiction

[Note: This old “Spengler” essay disappeared from the old Asia Times servers. For no other reason than annoyance over a New Yorker feature on Virginia Wolff, I repost it here]....

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Jennifer Rubin and the neo-Leninists

Leninist parties are always left wing, but substantive policy is of only secondary importance to them. As dictator of the Soviet Union, Lenin himself implemented some free market policies for a time. The primary concern of Leninists is always with raw, ab

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With Stupefying Cluelessness, Media Criticize Conservative Tech Refugees for Fleeing Censorship

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Henry Kissinger and the Self-Deluding Establishment

Henry Kissinger mislead the foreign policy establishment, but Ronald Reagan and now Donald Trump shook things up.