May 2016
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Science
Review of Dark Territory (Cyber war)
Hamid Hussain reviews Fred Kaplan’s Dark Territory, a history of cyber war from the 1983 War Games scare to offensive capabilities, finding it a well-drawn account of a largely classified…
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Akhtat Mansour, Islamic Wife-beating and Muslims for Trump 5-29-2016
The author uses the drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor to question Pakistan’s double role as a US ally and Taliban backer, then adds further ‘random thoughts’ on…
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Random Thoughts 5-19-2016; Asian-Americans, Humanities, Trump..
A new weekly-style post of short comments on stories, opening with Razib Khan’s piece on Asian Americans being used as political props, and a thought on why some left-liberal Asian…
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Diaspora
Asian Americans: Model Minority, POC or just a bad idea?
Quoting Razib Khan’s response to a Quartz piece, the post argues the ‘model minority myth’ framing is selectively applied, then asks why some South Asian American intellectuals insist Asian Americans…
