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Fact-Checking a Chinese Hero: Evan Osnos on the diary of Lei Feng, “the yeti of Chinese Communist history”: http://nyr.kr/YNXxFE
Above: A portrait of Lei Feng. Photograph by Evan Osnos.
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Is Senator Ted Cruz our new McCarthy?
In today’s Daily Comment, Jane Mayer writes about Senator Ted Cruz and Communism. Mayer reports on a speech Cruz gave at Harvard Law School, during which he accused the school of harboring a dozen Communists on its faculty when he studied there, “who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government”: http://nyr.kr/12WUgKO
Photograph by Lauren Lancaster.
Read Ryan Lizza on Ted Cruz and the future of Texas politics.
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"It may start a conversation that will be hard to end."
— Evan Osnos on the Bo Xilai case, or China’s Pandora’s Box: http://nyr.kr/SUHaDB(Source: newyorker.com)
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Late Nights, Mysterious Women, and Communism→
China and the Soviet Union: Evan Osnos on the similarities between the Ferrari crash on March 18th in Beijing and the 1990 Chernigov Incident: http://nyr.kr/PJjSjQ
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The Politics of a Chinese Orgy→
…the sex party is vexing for the Party because it highlights the gap between the artifice of official solemnity and the unadorned reality beneath, a gap that has become more pronounced in recent years as the Web eats away at the monopoly on authority.
Click-through to continue reading Evan Osnos, a New Yorker staff writer living in Beijing, on the “Lujiang Indecent Photos Incident”: http://nyr.kr/NHXedM
