Linh Dinh

Frontiersmen vs. Wusses

By Linh Dinh on April 23, 2019

Linh Dinh reports from Vietnam’s Central Highlands, from where he reflects on the delights of a local delicacy, dogmeat

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America as Religion

By Linh Dinh on April 8, 2019

America’s most enduring export has been its image. The farther you are from the US, the more mythical it becomes, it seduces everyone into worshipping its self-portrait.

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Escape from America: Budapest

By Linh Dinh on March 30, 2019

Linh Dinh talks to a U.S. expatriate living in Budapest on the joys and benefits of not living in the States

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On Contact: The Plight of the Underclass with Linh Dinh

By Linh Dinh on March 25, 2019

If you haven’t already seen it, Chris Hedges’ talk with Linh Dinh offers some valuable insights into America’s new emerging underclass

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Walt Whitman, Mass Media and Jewish Power

By Linh Dinh on March 25, 2019

Sigmund Freud’s discovery of the unconscious was weaponized by his nephew Edward Bernays and transformed into what is euphemistically known as ‘public relations’

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The Mekong Retains, Erases

By Linh Dinh on March 19, 2019

The Mekong Delta hasn’t just become Vietnamese, but quintessentially so, just as California, taken from Mexico, is emblematically American. Nothing is final

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Escape from America: Dedovsk, Russia

By Linh Dinh on March 11, 2019

Linh Dinh talks to an American who has been living in Russia for the past few years

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Presidential candidate Linh Dinh holding a baby. Click to enlarge

I’m Your Next President

By Linh Dinh on March 2, 2019

Do you want John Bolton in charge in the White House? Linh Dinh offers a solution to prevent that nightmare scenario

Posted in Commentary, Inside the White House and Washington's Beltway | 1 Response

Monkeys

By Linh Dinh on February 25, 2019

The Vietnamese seem to have concluded that Marx is a false god. In place of his image temples, shrines and churches are spreading throughout the land, together with the odd shaman

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Heart of Darkness Germany

By Linh Dinh on February 14, 2019

While still enjoying relative prosperity, stability, even tranquillity, there are more signs that Germany is fast approaching the “heart of darkness.”

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Years of the Pigs

By Linh Dinh on February 11, 2019

Linh Dinh welcomes the Lunar New Year in downtown Saigon

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Royal Decrees Must Yield to Village Norms

By Linh Dinh on January 28, 2019

If a saner world is to be recovered, it will be built on the foundation of places like Certaldo and Ea Kly.

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Hicks vs Globalists

By Linh Dinh on January 20, 2019

From America’s imminent collapse, we may anticipate, or at least wish, for a list of positive outcomes: the recovery of national sovereignty worldwide, including for Americans themselves, among them

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Man, War and Nation

By Linh Dinh on January 18, 2019

Who do you think are best able to defend their soil and survive, asks Linh Dinh, those who embrace nationalism or those who shun the very concept of nationhood?

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Whatever Your Hands Find to Do

By Linh Dinh on January 16, 2019

Just as in Philly, the Vietnamese working class will joke and banter most inappropriately, for it makes their long, exhausting day go a little faster. Linh Dinh on working in a Vietnamese plastic recycling plant

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Provincial Taxonomy

By Linh Dinh on January 10, 2019

A settler nation founded by immigrants, the US is full of people who have forsaken their roots. Consequently Linh Dinh feels more grounded in Ea Kly than anyhere he stayed in America

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Da Lat

By Linh Dinh on January 5, 2019

Da Lat. It’s one of the cleanest and most Catholic places in Vietnam, and perhaps the most stylish and elegant. Is there some causation here?

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Endless Culture War

By Linh Dinh on December 25, 2018

The more multicultural a society, the more muted and blunted each culture within it, and a man can only be fully himself within his own, self-defined context

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