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Two or three weeks ago the New Yorker carried a good article by Evan Osnos on the phenomenon of China's ''angry youth'' (fenqing). Much of the article was a profile of one young man in particular. In truth, he sounds more passionate than angry. It's worth reading the whole thing, but there was one section I found particularly interesting:When ...

Now: China's gold medal team. Their talent is not to be doubted. Their ages...perhaps:   Then: The 1956 US national squad: Things sure have changed. And not just the fashions.  

First go to the New York Times website and read David Brooks' column about collectivism and the opening ceremony:The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality. ...

Imagethief is a registered Democrat. I am such both because I feel it is my civic duty to vote, and because I was hectored relentlessly by a large woman with a clipboard when I went to go visit my old grad school in San Francisco a year and a half ago. Never sign any clipboard being waved by a loud, angry woman. I can't stress that strongly ...

Seeing all the headlines about how China now has more Internet users than the US has given Imagethief the same unpleasant feeling that he gets when he runs a strip of nylon cordura between his teeth. Imagethief has no problem with China having more Internet users than the US. China has four times more people than the US, so this is as it should ...

After you swallow a fair dose of the Chinapocalypse coverage that tends to ricochet through western media it can be nice to have a little antidote. John Pomfret, the former Beijing bureau chief of the Washington Post and a long-time China correspondent, has written an opinion piece that attempts to cut through some of the common, alarmist (from a ...

Imagethief has been leading a glamorous life of international travel this week. If you've never done it, you should know that by-and-large it sucks. Last week I flew to the US for a series of media training sessions with a client. They generously sprang for business class on United Airlines, which was nice (Imagethief's business class flying ...

Anyone within earshot will know that Imagethief welcomed his son, Zachary, into the world last March 9th. The nearly four months since have been one long sleepless adventure. Despite my fatigue induced delirium, however, the experience has been a happy one. Like parents everywhere I take the most profound pleasure in things that non-parents ...

Imagethief was interested to read in the New York Times today an article about the wrangling going on over the  United States Air Force's new monster procurement deal for aerial refueling tankers, one of the biggest defense programs ever. A little back story: There are two consortia bidding for the deal. One is led by perennial American ...

  My brother, Jesse Moss, is a documentary filmmaker who's major projects to date include films about a notorious con man, a demolition derby driver, and Republicans in Hollywood (all three available on DVD from Docurama, via Amazon). His latest film, co-directed with Tony Gerber, is ''Full Battle Rattle'', about ''Medina Wasl'', the ...