T2 — two months, twenty-two cartoons

Contra Trump ‘It was one thing to anticipate this prolonged political moment; it has been, these past weeks, quite another to live it’, wrote David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, in early March 2025.… Read

TDS Down Under — Drongology and the Conga Line of Suck-holes

Contra Trump TDS In February 2003, Mark Latham, the leader of the Labor Party opposition in the Australian parliament, said that a government delegation visiting US President George W. Bush in Washington was ‘a conga line of suck-holes on the conservative side of Australian politics.’… Read

America’s Catatonic Constitution

Contra Trump 有憲法無憲政 In Gödel’s Loophole and American’s ‘Cultural Revolution’, a chapter in Contra Trump — America’s Empire of Tedium, Zhang Qianfan, a leading Chinese constitutional expert, observed of the law-bending first month of Donald J.… Read

‘We’ll Dream of Being Blind’

Contra Trump 魘 We introduced Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, a China Heritage series launched in 2022, with an essay titled You Should Look Back. It was a reference to Don’t Look Up, a film directed by Adam McKay released in December 2021 that tells the story of two astronomers who attempt to warn the world about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization.… Read

American Juche

Contra Trump 주체사상 On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States of America, we noted the parallels between that wannabe Occidental autocrat and Mao Zedong, that infamous Oriental despot (see publication of A Monkey King’s Journey to the East).… Read