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21. Deauwand Myers

Your kind aren't welcomed here

Have we forgotten the 20th century, with its Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, Polpot and Mao Zedong: its pogroms and purges; its Holocaust and World Wars; its conflagration of miseries and atomic afterglows? The cicatrix of Poland and the cicatrix of Cambodia and Laos, the burned-out remains of Hue, the palls from these were thick with the stench of death; we, some of us at least, do not remember.

2018-08-08 17:26

How Trump was elected

The recent summit between a real dictator, Kim Jong-un, and a wannabe neo-fascist, Donald J. Trump, may be much ado about nothing. Seeing the two corpulent men on the world stage, North Korean and American flags presented side-by-side, was surreal. The international community was fascinated with this spectacle. Me? Not so much.

2018-07-05 17:15

Facebook isn't free

There's a price to pay for everything, even the internet. In the 90s, the global community decided the internet should be ostensibly free. Think of it: the visibility of a YouTube, the algorithms, security, and data storage of a Facebook or Gmail, the utility of a Google _ all of these and more were supposed to be offered to the masses free of charge.

2018-05-09 15:36

Men are lucky. Or rather, we have made it so: Employment opportunities, wages, promotions, basic safety, and the inequitable division of household, emotional, and family labor, are examples. So it is, or rather was, with beauty.

2018-04-09 15:30

Korea's reunification: pipe dream

The Olympics are over. And as per usual, Trump's chaotic administration caused a bit of controversy. Yet, honestly, I understood the reasoning behind the said administration's behavior.

2018-03-12 17:06

'Black Panther' matters

Across social media, Marvel's upcoming “Black Panther” movie has stoked quite a lot of excitement, particularly among people of color. At first, I didn't quite understand why. For the uninitiated: Black Panther isn't a first tier comic book character in Marvel's comic universe. (Neither was Iron-Man; but that turned out pretty well for Marvel Studios anyhow).

2018-02-05 17:12

Black Panther Asia Press Conference

'God was never great'

I say that which I have said before: Religion, I'm sorry, is not good. It's never been good. True believers will point to the myriad of good deeds the religious have done throughout history: law, order, charity, kindness, justice and peace.

2018-01-01 10:27

Vote, or perish

Years ago, some of my university students complained about my new grading policy, one that I later reminded them was instituted by the university itself at the request of the Ministry of Education.

2017-12-20 16:09

You're mean one, Mr. Trump (2)

This is the second in a series of open letters to U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of his Nov. 7-8 visit. _ ED. On the eve of Mr. Trump’s visit to Korea, and the coming of the holidays, I’m reminded of an old television animated classic, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” based off the eponymous book written by Dr. Seuss. In the TV special, Mr. Grinch, cruel and heartless, steals gifts and Christmas decorations from the entire town of Whoville.

2017-11-01 17:47

We know developing and impoverished countries are confronted with socioeconomic and sociopolitical gender inequities. However, some advanced democracies are way behind in gender equity. In particular: America, Japan and, alas, Korea. Case in point: right before the Chuseok holiday, a professor and coworker friend of mine and I were chatting. She had brought me some slices of pumpkin pie. Heavenly. By all accounts, she’s happy and healthy and her family is doing well. Laughingly, she bemoaned the coming holiday. She’s expected to do the majority of cooking and cleaning for her immediate and e...

2017-10-09 17:05

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