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Elastic Justice

For decades, the United States projected itself as the world’s foremost defender of rules-based governance.

Headline: Does Basab Dasgupta Have Great Jeans?

A TV commercial for American Eagles brand jeans, featuring blue-eyed blonde actress Sydney Sweeney, caused a storm of controversies in the US. Many people complained that the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” really implies that Sydney has great genes ("jeans" being homophonic with “genes”) – thus promoting white supremacy.

Chip Politics

In a sharp turn from the rhetoric of outright bans, Washington has brokered a deal allowing two of its leading semiconductor firms to resume sales of customised AI chips to China ~ on the condition that 15 per cent of the resulting revenue flows directly to the US government.

Saving the international order by destroying it

The current international order was built out of two world wars in an effort to reconstruct peace and avoid the ultimate third world war, after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Minority reports from America and India

The purpose of this essay is to present interesting similarities and also profound distinctions in how the respective minority populations live in American and Indian societies with some speculations about the future trend.

Powerful metaphors that caution us to be alert

The 1991 American science fiction film, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” teaches us one valuable lesson: “Appearances are deceiving.” In the movie, a man in a police uniform is, in fact, a T-1000 advanced cyborg that is a ruthless killing machine.