Day: January 9, 2018

Opinion | The Alt-Right’s Asian Fetish

Opinion | The Alt-Right’s Asian Fetish A great way to destroy your credibility–use ad hominem attacks that liken opponents to deviants and sexual perverts. (Unless of course we’re talking about the USA, where anything sexual is already evil).

Buddhism and State Power in Myanmar

Buddhism and State Power in Myanmar belacqui-pro-quo: In Myanmar’s new, more democratic era, the debate over the proper place of Buddhism, and the role of political leadership in protecting it, is being recast. Given the deep, mutually legitimising historical relationship between the state and the clergy, this debate, which is unlikely to end soon, cannot…

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