Contra Trump 你儂我儂 Peter Hartcher is political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Australia. He interviewed me about how Donald Trump’s America is becoming more like Xi Jinping’s China.… Read

Contra Trump 秀才遇到兵 In ‘The brutes have entered the grove’, the first part of this cycle of essays on the crisis in American higher education, we featured a plea for unity by Professor James A.… Read

Contra Trump 政治掛帥 In recent years, the gunpowder stench of militant ideology has become stronger. It reeks of a trend to ‘impose discursive hegemony’, although in reality it is a perverse use of the public to impose ideological punishment.… Read

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

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

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