Properly Doing Minority Report
Properly Doing Minority Report? On Thought Crime and Predictability Category: Theory, Tags: Ethics, Law, Essay In this essay, I argue that perpetrators of unfinished/discontinued crimes due to external contradictions can and should be charged as if their crimes are completed as long as it can be reasonably proven that the crimes would have been completed […]
Politicizing Human Rights
Politicizing Human Rights: On the Moral Deficiency of Human Rights Rhetoric Category: Theory, Tags: Human Rights, International, Essay Introduction Human rights have been popularized as the fundamental and inalienable moral standards in the West. However, how and why did such a seemingly vague and simple principle become increasingly specified and what is the role history […]
China’s Fertility Crisis
How the Second Most Populous Country Cannot Afford Childrearing: Behind China’s Fertility Crisis Category: Contemporary, Tags: China, Population, Welfare State, Essay This article is also published here. Introduction In 2023, China’s population shrank by 2.08 million (Qi, 2024). The reason was unambiguous: its total fertility rate is approaching 1 child per woman (Minzner, 2024), whereas 2.1 […]
Deviant Nationalisms
Deviant Nationalisms: Variants of Nationalistic Images of China’s Internet Generation Category: Contemporary, Tags: China, Nationalism, Youth Culture, Essay Introduction Since the late twentieth century, scholars have been talking about the “rise of nationalism” among the Chinese youth (Johnston, 2017; Tang & Darr, 2012). Mostly seen as a threat to political and international stability, Chinese nationalism […]