Anil Dash, who helped create NFTs, explains why they are bad

Taiwan’s Flood of Household debt

Colleges Are Using COVID as a Pretext to Make Draconian Cuts to the Humanities

The biggest threat to Taiwan is political, not military

AAS Statement on Chinese Government Sanctions - Association for Asian Studies

The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are very effective in real-world conditions at preventing infections, the C.D.C. reported.

Erasing people through disinformation: Syria and the “anti-imperialism” of fools

Policing and criminalization of sex work hurts massage workers, even when they aren’t sex workers.

Interesting, wide-ranging, LRB article on the concept of “meritocracy”

only person who has been prosecuted for an anti-Asian hate crime in NYC this year is Taiwanese…accused of writing anti-Chinese graffiti

David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything

J. Mark Ramseyer isn’t just wrong about comfort women, here is an article criticizing his work on “Buraku Outcastes in Japan”

The Silent Time Machine: Films from the 1890s, when moving image cameras were first used for ethnographic purposes, until the 1960s

This was a lot more interesting that I expected…

In the $15 Minimum-Wage Debate, GOP Populists Are for Bosses

How Korea Became a Forgotten War - an interview with Owen Miller

The Democrats Are Blocking a $15 Minimum Wage

If Bitcoin actually did any of the things its proponents claimed, they might have a point; but they don’t

Somebody give me a few million dollars to do a remake of Breaking Bad set in Taiwan…

How a farmers’ protest in India evolved into a mass movement that refuses to fade

Japan’s ruling party invites women to meetings – but won’t let them speak

Report (in Chinese) about my university’s efforts to install solar panels

Malnutrition is rising across India - why?

It amazes me that Amazon takes zero responsibility for goods sold on its site

Myanmar’s generals blindsided by Gen Z protests