List of Articles – Category: “Comments on Policies and Programs”

There is plenty written on the American Dream. We all have an idea of what that means. It is part of our civil religion, as Robert Bellah might have suggested in his 1967 Civil Religion in America.The term “American Dream” was popularized by James Truslow Adams in 1931, saying that “life should be better and …

A bit long, but worth perusing …. use the red highlights to skip around …  An introductionThe US and China are two big countries and big countries with modern economies will necessarily have some similar problems. Middle class Chinese have concerns quite similar to those of middle class Americans. We write …

A brief note on choice of dates … and choice of policies. I don’t think CCP and GOP are directly coordinating policy, but they have constructed curiously sympatico … and apparently similarly timed … programs for major world restructuring. One economic and technological, one political and radically reactionary.CCP uber allesMade …

I get accused of writing excessively long posts. Mea culpa. This one is long, but not my writing. I include in full four articles, all coming to me within the last couple of days. Together, they lay out a Chinese plan for the decades, a Sino-Russian plan for the decades, …

– What a Community of Common Destiny will look likeAround 2005, our Chinese government students in Chicago were quite interested in our notions of NGOs. They had a tough time with NGOs like community organizations that received most or all of their funding from the local government, and then sometimes took …

… in force in American politics, but is the heart of Confucian thinking about leadership – how will this policy help the people?  The Confucian leader is judged according to that standard – and don’t give me the innovation and tax-cuts-create-jobs crap.Secular humanists and some evangelical Trumpians might agree with …