Years of the Pigs
Linh Dinh welcomes the Lunar New Year in downtown Saigon
Royal Decrees Must Yield to Village Norms
If a saner world is to be recovered, it will be built on the foundation of places like Certaldo and Ea Kly.
Hicks vs Globalists
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
Man, War and Nation
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?
Whatever Your Hands Find to Do
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
Provincial Taxonomy
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
Da Lat
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?
Endless Culture War
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
Low End Soccer, Genetics and Fascist Behavior
America has become, a nation of too many totalitarian-minded sheep who don’t even know they’re being manipulated into destroying their own country.
US Sanctions Against Iran
Preaching freedom and democracy, America brings war and economic collapse, and it would love nothing more than to see Iran destroyed.
A More Colorful, Diluted and Dying Japan
What’s happening to Japan is relevant worldwide, for all the most advanced and accomplished populations are shrinking, while the most backward recklessly breed
Kawaii, Somber Japan
Linh Dinh visits Japan, a land where adult diapers outsell those for babies and where at least 43 percent of the natives aged 18-34 are still virgins