February 2016

​American Dream used to be the dream of the world. As Americans, they are given opportunities to pursue dreams of their own, from educational choices to career achievements. It is especially manifested in immigrants arrived in the United States where they can find opportunities for making themselves to be somebody not possible at where they were from. The American Dream becomes a symbol of freedom,...

A local public school story happened a year ago at Piper School Board, Piper, Kansas City, had reached national mass media including CBS and New York Times. The news reporting might have raised a few eyebrows even created a little emotional reaction but the hidden issue the writer, Jodi Wilgoren implied – Declining American Value – in her long article, entitled, School Cheating Scandal...

John Mearsheimer is well known for his Hegemony Theory on national security and foreign relations. He makes reasonable assumptions for his theory and claims modestly that the theory is only right 75% of the time. This allows him to pick and choose past even conveniently to lend credits to his theory as well as to apply the theory selectively to current world affairs. On the question whether his theory...