The belief that through free trade, economic growth and increased foreign interaction China would evolve into a liberal democratic society was based on a deeply flawed understanding of Chinese culture, according to Habi Zhang. In Law and Liberty, he discusses China and the West’s incompatible understandings of human beings – and how Western elites got it so wrong.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


