“I Should’ve Seen This Coming” reads the title of a recent article in The Atlantic, one of many attempts to rationalize and mitigate the failure of moderates and progressives to predict what they see as the Trump administration’s unforeseeable chaos. From the very moment of Trump’s electoral victory, countless such titles — Harris-voter apologia, if […]
Author: Jeffrey Tian
The Secret Scramble for Africa
“The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.” Writing in 1961, Frantz Fanon was witnessing a new era in African history — after a century of near-total colonial domination, the last vestiges of Western empire had at last begun to unravel. Fanon, perhaps one of the 20th century’s most renowned political […]