Interesting Items

Laboring under the illusion of a rules-based global order

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/12/23/commentary/world-commentary/laboring-illusion-rules-based-global-order/

The Left-Right Divide Isn’t the One That Matters

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/pete-buttigiegs-radical-centrism/603931/

Judging the past by the values of today can be its own kind of intolerance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/opinion/2020-tolerance-chronocentrism.html

What Happens When Japan Stops Looking ‘Japanese’?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/12/immigration-japan-national-identity/603568/