By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024
The Soviet Union Won the Second World War
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Authoritarian Durability in China
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 January 2021
Kellee Tsai’s Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (2007) is essentially an economic history of China since the Communist takeover. It is rich in sociological and every other kind of data, all very accessibly presented. A broader takeaway from the book, however, is that a transition to democracy, especially liberal democracy, is unlikely in China on a timescale that is relevant to most of us. Continue reading
Film Review: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on May 18, 2014
Let us stipulate that getting a thing like this correct is basically impossible: there will never be enough time in three hours—the most a film hoping for commercial success can last—to adequately cover in proper detail and nuance the facts of such an inherently complicated and contested period in history. And if effort is made to go even some of the way to doing a proper job on this score, it only underlines all the things that were left out and alienates the section of the audience that has no interest in the history and wants an entertaining movie. Caveats in place …
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