Shanghai
Montage Ending With a Line from Tu Fu
Too many years: and I’m struck with sad amazement how much you’ve aged since I last saw you— your face wearing away like sand, grain by invisible grain, the skin leathering, sinew and muscle starting to sag to craggy jowls beneath your bearded jaw, your hair withering like grave-grass on the stone. You’ve grown a mustache to compensate. Your charcoal pin-striped suit is cut to kill. Your body still unbowed, but soon to stoop and slow. READ MORE >>
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. READ MORE >>
One Year Later: The Failure of the Arab Spring
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Why Should We Care About Fast-Growing Turkish Metro Areas
Yesterday, the World Bank released a new less optimistic forecast for global growth in 2012. It warrants a look back at the year that just passed. 2011 was marked by slower growth in both developed and developing countries. The protests of Arab Spring, Japan’s catastrophic earthquake, and the Eurozone’s debt problems contributed to slower growth around the world. READ MORE >>
Sarah Williams Goldhagen on Architecture: Valuable China
Fire and Ice
Reading Strauss in Beijing
Cut and Invest to Spark Economic Growth
With American CEOs gathered at Blair House for a discussion on the economy this morning, the overriding challenge for the president and business is twofold: how to grow jobs in the near term while retooling the economy for the long haul. The United States cannot return to an economy characterized by excessive, debt-leveraged consumption. Rather, we want to move forward to an economy driven by exports, powered by low carbon and fuelled by innovation. READ MORE >>
