What makes an American an American?
I push back on Joshua Treviño’s attempt to dismiss the propositions that made America America, and Americans Americans.
Politics
Life imitates art in Taiwan
A real-life scandal for the DPP echoes a fictional one.
Democracy with Taiwanese characteristics
A review of the Taiwanese TV series Wave Makers.
(Almost) all politics is local
If you want to effect political change, try working in your own backyard..
A better way to elect the Howard County Board of Education
Howard County parents and other voters deserve a way to vote for the Board of Education that truly reflects their preferences.
Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism
What the survival of Harvard tells us about Harvard.
Jorie Graham is on Twitter
I find a favorite poet in an unexpected place.
Taiwan and the geopolitical uses of lesbian romcoms
Why is the Taiwanese government funding LGBTQ films and TV series?
Expanding the five-district Howard County Council to three members per district
Another approach to expanding the Howard County Council, still using five districts but now with three members per district.
Final thoughts on my Howard County Council redistricting proposal
In this last post of the series I talk about why I care about this, and why I did it.