North Korea… Life and Death in the Koreas 6 Jan 20106 Jan 2010 I just emerged from a 46-hour encounter (minus a few breaks for sleeping, teaching, writing, riding a city bus with some ex-cons, and eating) with Barabara Demick's outstanding new book,…
Environmental Politics in East Asia… Hatoyama Fails to Pardon: Japanese Winter Whale Hunts Underway 26 Nov 2009 While Americans are stuffing themselves with large quantities of bird meat (or, in my case, giant bowls of Vietnamese soup), another hunt for protein is on in Antarctic waters by…