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The Twilight of Great American Cities is Here. Can We Stop It?

The dreadful death of George Floyd lit a fire that threatens to burn down America’s cities. Already losing population before the pandemic, our major urban centers have provided ideal kindling for conflagration with massive unemployment, closed businesses and already rising crime rates.
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How Race Politics Burns Out

Racial identity politics has become the rage in the media, entertainment, and political worlds. Will this approach help minorities transcend discrimination and achieve a durable success in a diverse society?
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Chinese Science Fiction’s Disaster Dystopias

In Ma Jian’s novel China Dream, the protagonist, Ma Daode suggests, “The China dream is not the selfish, individualist dream chased by Western countries. It is a ...dream of the entire nation...” This mindless worship of hierarchy and control permeates his thinking.
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