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It was an interesting week to be conservative, Asian, and Korean because of the Google memo, affirmative action, and nukes.
What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
Pocono Pines, Pa., is a two-hour drive from New York City. After you exit the Interstate, the route into town winds past short trees and abandoned gas stations with rust-edged signs showing gas prices from years before. The town, on the shore…
Title IX Enforcement Is Such a Mess Right Now
Often, the conversation about how colleges enforce Title IX with regard to sexual assault and harassment allegations quickly devolves into standard political muck-throwing — squabbles about whether liberals are too easily triggered, or why…
The Uncomfortable Truth About Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans
The application process for schools, fellowships, and jobs always came with a ritual: a person who had a role in choosing me—an admissions officer, an interviewer—would mention in his congratulations that I was…
A nuanced take by one of my favorite writers, Prof. Jeannie Suk Gersen on a topic that hits close to home. I pretty much agree with her view. Having written my college essay about listening to rap music, I've always wondered, did I have to?—TK
The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High
On one of those steel-skied Manhattan winter mornings, when it seems like the city is encased by a slow-moving ironclad, I was sitting in the back seat of a Mercedes-Benz, eating a hot dog with two new friends. Exactly 44 $100 bills lay folded up…
Why 5G Will Transform Much More Than Telecommunications
The transition from 4G to 5G will allow wireless technology to surpass three technical thresholds: 1) wireless internet speeds will surpass cable broadband and potentially also fiber optic cable; 2) the “internet of things” will have…
How This Silicon Valley Giant Is Backing China's Tech Ambitions
As the Chinese government develops drones, the American technology giant Qualcomm is helping. The same goes for artificial intelligence, mobile technology and supercomputers. Qualcomm is also working to help Chinese companies like Huawei break into…
The real reason there are so few conservatives on campus
Conservative professors are vastly outnumbered on college campuses by those on the left. And conventional wisdom holds that the source of the imbalance is flagrant ideological bias on…
Cryptocurrency's Netscape Moment
Just as Netscape's IPO marked the real kick off for the Internet era, 2017 will be the starting gun for broad involvement of venture, hedge funds, and eventually average consumers in cryptocurrencies and related protocols and assets. The recent run…
Let's Bring The Polymath - and the Dabblers - Back
I noticed recently that books with the phrase “The Last Man Who Knew Everything” all share in common that their subjects lived during the period close to the Scientific Revolution, roughly between 1550 to 1700. (The examples I own are…