Professor Robert Sauer describes the response to a virus as a “monumental government failure,” a “state-run religion” where believers brand truth-tellers as “heretics,” and that Americans are being hit with “phycological napalm."

James recalls a Western tradition on the island of Con Dao.

James remembers Nixon vs. Kennedy.

Jeff J. Brown tells James the Chinese view of the world.

Chuck Searcy takes us to where American bombs still explode fifty years after they were dropped.

Gareth Porter tells James about the trillions of dollars to be spent upon a fool’s errand.

Asian think-tank executive Eric Stryson tells James what’s happening in Hong Kong, China.

Two giants of WWII inspire James.

James has a conversation with award-winning journalist Nick Turse.

Michelle Bradley--James's Taipei-based daughter--looks at Asia from Taiwan.