Aaron Wee

In both Europe and the United States, it seems society is dividing itself into two camps. It’s not so much a divide between the right and the left, the conservatives and the liberals, the powerful and the weak (though, it is to an extent, all of…

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) goes by the street name ‘mad cow disease,’ appropriately, however morbid, because BSE-infected cows seem to go crazy. It’s an insidious disease – hidden during a long incubation period – that literally eats…

Now that China, according to some recent, imperfect guesstimates, is the world’s largest economy, it’s time to pop open the baijiu and usher in a new world order, right? But if the history of great power politics is any indication – and Chinese…

For the duration of the ongoing European financial crisis, the German-directed European Central Bank (ECB) has been preaching one panacea: austerity. And it has been disastrous – for the Eurozone, for Europe’s governments, and, most of all, for the…

There are two brutal, dangerous fantasies at play in the tragic – and completely avoidable – killing of Trayvon Martin, who was guilty of nothing more than walking “suspiciously” in a Florida neighborhood. The first was the delusional paranoia of…

The late Harvard law professor Derrick Bell joins the list of radical bogeyman influences on Barack Obama – alongside the activist and educator Bill Ayers and the Chicago community leader and pastor Jeremiah Wright. Bell, one of the originators of…

While the West is concerned with how to cut onerous debt and support its societies, China has been on a little-publicized spending spree. Whereas dollar, and to a lesser extent euro, diplomacy was once the name of the game in the developing world –…

In a genre of uncertainties, third act twists, and a penchant for unsettling our expectations, the one inviolable rule of comic books is: Superman cannot be defeated. The son of Krypton, and self-designated defender of Earth (or, more narrowly, the…

A nuclear-armed Iran would be a game-changer in Middle Eastern politics. Having two (potentially) belligerent nuclear states is disastrous; one causes enough headaches as it is. Thankfully, contrary to the opinions of rabble-rousing hawks in…