Guilt Complex
Theodore DALRYMPLE The selfie is perhaps the defining cultural artifact of our time. Me and the Mona Lisa, Me and the Pyramids, Me…
The Life, Death, and Potential Rebirth of China’s ‘Taitai’ Housewives
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006044/the-life%2C-death%2C-and-potential-rebirth-of-chinas-taitai-housewives A popular “Nothing but Thirty” character has renewed debate on the merits of housewifery, but the “taitai” lifestyle was…
Life on the Slow Train: Views of a Vanishing China
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006089/life-on-the-slow-train-views-of-a-vanishing-china Qian Haifeng has spent years documenting the decline of China’s “green trains” — the Mao-era rail network that remains…
NüVoices Podcast: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi
April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and…
The Progressive Racism of the Ivy League
https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/the-progressive-racism-of-the-ivy-league/ If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to…
The Artist Confronting China’s One-Child Past
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006047/the-artist-confronting-chinas-one-child-past In 2011, Zhou Wenjing discovered her mother was forcibly sterilized soon after her birth. Ever since, the young artist…
Mindfulness and Social Identity
by Varun Gauri These days, fights about social identity are coming to the boil. Could mindfulness practice lower the temperature…