The difference between this revolution and those in Germany, China, or Iran, is not of kind, but of degree, and only so far. The similarities between the sentiments of extremists in Iran’s government ...

The showrunner for Netflix's new show "3 Body Problem", David Benioff noted the parallels between a scene depicting China’s Cultural Revolution and modern cancel culture. Netflix’s new sci-fi epic ‘3 ...

The new Netflix series “3 Body Problem” isn’t really about China’s Cultural Revolution or US culture wars. The science fiction epic, adapted from Liu Cixin’s Hugo award-winning novel, is more ...

With this month’s issue, The New Criterion commences its tenth year of publication. It seems an appropriate moment in which to cast a glance over a decade that has witnessed historic changes of the ...

“3 Body Problem,” a Netflix adaptation of the popular Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the Cultural Revolution. Yangyang Cheng, fellow and ...

FILE - In this August 1966, file photo, Chinese leader Mao Zedong meets with representatives of the revolutionary teachers and students from Peking and other parts of the country. Mao launches the ...

One detail about Elon Musk’s radical assault on the federal government that has struck a chord with many is the age of Musk’s associates. They have been compared to the “whiz kids” of the Pentagon in ...

Revolutions and counterrevolutions can get nasty and violent — even cultural revolutions and counterrevolutions. Charlie Kirk was a culture and political warrior — and a very successful one — in a ...

Song Binbin, perhaps the most infamous “Red Guard” of the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 77 on Monday, September 16. Song, the daughter of one of the Party’s powerful “Eight Immortals,” was ...

In 1969, 12-year old Sasha Gong was sent from her home in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to the rural hinterlands to be “re-educated.” It was the fourth year of what became the decade-long ...

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