Yales legendary secret society used to train powerful elites. But it could only reflect elite culture, not define it.<\/p>\n
Lebanons state is collapsing under the weight of its own dysfunction. Visiting its capital, I found a gallery of street art, urban wreckage, and political nihilism.<\/p>\n
Our approach to education is reproducing societys worst neuroses. The alternative isnt institutional reform, but a different consciousness.<\/p>\n
Both China and the West are embracing scientific population management driven by digital technologies. Why have they given up on mobilizing their populations?<\/p>\n
The party cadre Jiao Yulu embodied a Chinese political culture with room for experiments and risk-taking. Xis turn to digital technocracy may threaten its survival.<\/p>\n
Geremie Barm joins Ash Milton to discuss his experiences in China during the Cultural Revolution and what prior upheavals can teach us about the Xi era.<\/p>\n
Americas elite universities have an aristocratic mission. The Confucian tradition has lessons for how to achieve it.<\/p>\n
While in Lebanon to report on a disintegrating state, I found Hezbollah building a different kind of regime.<\/p>\n
One mans thought has become pivotal in Chinas new political and cultural crackdowns. That man is not Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n
Kevin Kelly joins the salon to discuss his new book and photographic travelogue: Vanishing Asia. Other topics include why history matters for futurists and why Kevin doesnt regret the vanishing of the past.<\/p>\n
For several centuries, life has become increasingly monitored, legible, and uniform. Can we endure our centralized societies?<\/p>\n
Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didnt need it at all?<\/p>\n
Xi wants to guide Chinas thinkers with a clear party line. But that line is just one rallying point in a complex intellectual ecology.<\/p>\n
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss what defines elites and why we are stuck with an upper middle class today instead.<\/p>\n
While in Tokyo for the Summer Olympics, I instead saw the spectacle of Japans aspiring new elites.<\/p>\n
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss Chinas role in industrial civilization and what we can learn from it.<\/p>\n
The Japanese Empire founded Kenkoku University to create new pan-Asian elites. Despite their own defeat, they succeeded.<\/p>\n
In the midst of Japans chaotic Sengoku era, a radical Buddhist sect carved out a new regime. Then came the real test.<\/p>\n
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