Men Without Tights

NBC’s series Heroes, about a group of ordinary people who suddenly acquire extraordinary abilities, is among the year’s biggest hits—it attracted 16 million viewers for one episode during November sweeps. The show returns Monday night, as the heroes attempt to avert a nuclear explosion in New York. Heroes is but the latest example of a [...]

Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context

In this collection of essays, Bell makes a compelling case for what he calls “morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the East Asian region” (8). Although the largest part of the book focuses on Chinese speaking countries such as China, Taiwan, and Singapore, Bell rightly characterizes the book as addressing issues that tend [...]