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Month: May 2015

Comment on WSJ – Walter Russell Mead – On the Future of Middle East Christians

  • Religion
May 31, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Walter Russell Mead really hits the nail on the head, here.  He explains that the four older empires, Ottoman, Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian, were, whatever their weaknesses, “multiethnic and multi confessional states.”  After the fall of these empires, all these […]

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Our China Journey, Part IV – Henan, The Center of the Universe

  • Miscellaneous
May 28, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We bundled our luggage into a van and got on a train and headed for Luoyang, Henan, a place which has frequently been the capital of China, though a bit of a backwater now.  Here were a number of things […]

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Our China Journey, Part III – Xi’an and Yan’an

  • Miscellaneous
May 26, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

From Nanjing we got on a plane and flew 600 miles to the northwest to Xi’an, Shaanxi.  This city is now a second tier city about the size of Chicago, but during the Tang dynasty [618-907] it was Chang’an, the […]

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Our China Journey, Part II – Shanghai and the Lower Yangtze Region

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May 24, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

SHANGHAI We next flew to Shanghai, though the largest city in the country it is not in its core area historically Chinese. Shanghai was a small town until 1842, when just north of it two large concession enclaves were carved […]

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Our China Journey, Part I – Singapore and Guangzhou

  • Miscellaneous
May 22, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

SINGAPORE David, Roberta, and I started our adventure in Singapore, which is a 75% Chinese city but was ruled by the British from 1818 to 1957 and after 1965 by the late great Lee Kwan Yew, who established English as […]

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‘Freedom From Speech’ and Freedom From Other Things

  • Culture
May 18, 2015August 21, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

“Freedom of speech” has been a slogan in America and the Western World for some time.  But how to explain the rise of “political correctness,” which has not much affected our civil law, but has affected policies on campus, and, […]

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