Bush on the Couch
New York Magazine has a collection of very short essays (paragraphs really) which caricaturizes what it is we are seeing from President Bush. Surrounded by the failure of his vision, his public persona has only recently shown any apologies for his conduct or decisions.Book Review: US National Security and Foreign Direct Investment
For too long, the business community has seen China either as a source for low-cost exports or the most lucrative un-developed domestic economy the world has to offer. While neither is wrong, to be successful China’s business will have to mature, and in the act of maturing challenge many US firms on ground once thought impenetrable. This book is just one part of the more complex set of questions which are evolving and must be understood regarding how China’s regional champions are re-vamping their strategies and looking for more mature mechanisms for accessing North American markets. To the extent a discussion over Chinese FDI into the US serves the purposes of stimulating such a discussion, this book ...The Crisis of Liberalism
In a recent essay for City Journal, Christopher Hitchens brilliantly elucidates why Islamic fundamentalism is such a challenge to liberalism specifically, and secularism in general. The essay is worth reading in whole, but an excerpt follows: Of course, these have not been the only consequences of September 11 and its aftermath. Islamist suicide-terrorism has mutated into new shapes and adopted fresh grievances as a result of the mobilization against it. Liberalism has found even more convoluted means of blaming itself for the attack upon it. But at least the long period of somnambulism is over, and the opportunity now exists for antibodies to form against the infection.Richard Dawkins: Either His Way or the Highway?
My most recent article on spirituality, If Dawkins Makes Sense to Me, Does That Make Me an Atheist?, has been published at SOMA: The Society of Mutual Autopsy, a Review of Religion and Culture. This is an on-line site run by John Spalding, author of the very good A Pilgrim's Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City.Moral Certainty
From H.L. Mencken (hat tip to Andrew Sullivan): "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.'"Asia Pictures - November & December 2006
Some selected pictures from my trip to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Macao, Singapore and Shanghai this past November & December of 2006.China’s Auto Makers Hunt for US Key
A follow-up article analyzing the presence of Chinese autos at last week's Detroit Auto Show was my most recent publication at Asia Times and can be read here.Colbert & D’Souza … Priceless
Infamy can be acquired many ways, appearing on Steven Colbert's Comedy Central show is only one such method. Having a preposterous thesis also helps, as Dinesh D'Souza has in his most recent book The Enemy at Home: the Cultural Left & Its Responsibility for 9/11.Andrew Sullivan & Sam Harris in Dialogue
The author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It and How To Get It Back, Andrew Sullivan, and the author of The End of Faith, Sam Harris, are having a fascinating conversation at BeliefNet. Their dialogue has much to offer in shaping our understanding of how faith and secularism can and should interact. Most recently from Sam: I think we basically understand one another, and yet we disagree on many points of importance—so we're off to a good start. You are right to say that my view of faith doesn’t really allow for “solid distinctions within faiths,” while yours “depends on such distinctions.” This summarizes our disagreement very well. I recognize, of course, that there ...Marketing to North American Corporate Buyers & Retail Executives
The presentation slides from my 2006 speech at the Hong Kong SME exhibition below. Check out the Slideshare utility - it's an awesome on-line resource for those looking to share PowerPoint slides. « Previous EntriesAbout MysteriousFaith
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