Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Tuesday marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, when China’s People’s Liberation Army opened fire on pro-democracy activists, killing between a few hundred and a few thousand civilians. That the death toll remains unknown is a symptom of the Chinese government’s thirty-year project to scrub Tiananmen Square from […]
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It is easy to say the wrong thing on a foreign visit, especially if you are President Donald Trump. It is even easier if you deal with your own lack of knowledge, as he does, by resorting to absolutes. On Tuesday, Trump appeared at a press conference with Theresa May, who is the Prime Minister […]
For a movie that’s rooted in personal experience, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is strangely vague. For one that’s based on physical labor, it is oddly lacking a sense of texture and effort. For one that’s rooted in observation of a specific place, it’s disorientingly dematerialized. The film is a prime example of […]
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Thirty years later, June 4, 1989, remains the most unspeakable date in modern Chinese history. It was on that morning that the People’s Liberation Army opened fire on civilian protesters who had been gathering for weeks in Tiananmen Square, in the center of Beijing, to call for political reform. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed, […]
“To be alive and sick is a far more complex endeavor than we like to admit,” Esmé Weijun Wang wrote in an essay for Catapult, in 2016. Wang would know: as a teen in the Bay Area, in 2001, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Twelve years later—eight years after her first auditory hallucination—she was […]
It has become fashionable to hate the late Yugoslavia, or to diagnose it retroactively as a kind of Frankenstein assemblage of mismatched parts whose dissolution was thus inescapable and inevitably bloody. But, a few decades from now, when some historian on a think-tank sinecure looks at the devastation in America left in the wake of […]
Last Thursday, Donald Trump ignored the advice of some of his senior advisers—including the Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer—and threatened to impose tariffs of up to twenty-five per cent on imports from Mexico. The very next day, Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, who has […]