Hoi An Lessons
Pitching its increasingly threadbare sexy image, America threatens at gunpoint the entire world, including its own citizens
Peak Buffet for Ungrateful Insensates
Linh Dinh continues to drift around Vietnam, as he reflects on modern American style ‘patriotism’, which is no more than cynical and empty posturing
Beached in Nha Trang
Communism is well dead across Vietnam, and nowhere more so than where Linh Dinh reports from, hedonistic Nha Trang.
Corpses in Ocean
It pains me very much to write this, writes Linh Dinh, because it involves a hurting toddler, my 2-year-old nephew, Suki
Obscured American: Lindy Morelli the Carmelite Nun
Linh Dinh visits a property run by a blind, 54-year-old nun that is home to criminals, perverts and the broken-hearted
Chinese Rebels
Linh Dinh, who has spent the past week in Hong and Kong Macau, reflects on food and the one of the ironies of colonialism
Interviewing Craig Nelsen
How two years in China prompted a former “no-borders idealist” to look again at race, migration and the fraud that is the Southern Poverty Law Center
Belonging, Not Belonging, Who Cares?
The 20th century promised to liberate you from traditions, customs, family, nation, hometown, marriage, love, memory and even biology. How could you resist?
Kafka, Anti-Semite
Writing inn downtown Saigon, Linh Dinh reflects on Kafka and his inadequately interpreted story, “Jackals and Arabs,”
Jewish Genius
In 1944, Einstein wrote a letter in which he urged that a collective punishment be imposed on the German people
Jack London?
Almost forgotten now, Jack London was a US version of George Orwell who chronicled life: from prison to being a prospector in the Klondike and a hobo London’s East End
Promised Land Angola
In the West, there is a campaign against nature and the natural order. If it continues, Whites will have a darker future than the yellow, brown or even black universe