The Post-Partisan Emporium

  When Argument Becomes Opium: Amartya Sen, Indian Paralysis, and the Indianization of the West Words without actions and the magic of turning defeat into victory Hua Bin I wrote an essay titled “The Myth of India Becoming the Next China” last November to debunk a popular but fallacious Western narrative. https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-india-becoming-the-next The essay continues to get views and feedback. A reader recommended the 2005 book The Argumentative Indian , by an Indian author Amartya Sen, to understand the cultural roots of the state of affairs in the self-claimed Bharat empire. I got a copy and skimmed through. While Sen’s title seems to suggest a cultural weakness, his central argument is the opposite. India, Sen argues, possesses a millennial tradition of public debate, skepticism, and pluralism. This argumentative heritage, far from being a weakness, is the true source of Indian democracy’s resilience. It is why famines have been prevented, why secul...

  The Truth Unvarnished Peeling away centuries of patina Radio Far Side The American Society of Theatrical Religious Spectacle (ASTRS Inc.) has for decades been well paid to promote an absurdity commonly called “Israel,” with the official name of Zion Inc. Banking on the profound ignorance of the general population and their lack of motivation to actually study history, Zion Inc. has convinced millions that it has exclusive rights to a strip of desert formally known since AD137 as Palestine. The greatest of the myriad absurdities is the idea that YHWH is the Christian god. A quick reading of John 8:44 should put that to rest, but ASTRS Inc. assiduously avoids focusing on inconvenient passages in their sacred texts, in order to sell a fairy tale of critical military and geopolitical importance. The second greatest absurdity peddled by Zion Inc. is the idea that “Israel” is the homeland of the “Jews”. Again, actually reading the four canonical Gospels should dispel that illusion, but...