The Scholars of Shen Zhou

If there was any doubt that the Republican party is the party of Trump, I think that has been dispelled. Trump and Trumpism isn't going anywhere, even if Trump loses. If Trump loses, one of his children is likely the Republican nominee in 2024, if it's not Donald Trump again himself. If Joe Biden do...

I think they should pack the court and pack the Senate too while they're at it. Give Puerto Rico statehood for an easy +2. Republicans removed the judicial filibuster or whatever and refused Obama's appointee for about nine months before the election, while ramming through their own with 8 days to s...

I suspect Biden will win, but with the major caveat that to me, a few days or a week is an eternity in political terms. If the polls tighten close to election, to the point where Trump is within 1 point in certain major battlegrounds, buckle up. Trump can afford to lose Michigan and Pennsylvania and...

I can offer a better and simpler explanation now after some thought and after rereading parts of Gardiner's paper on the Gongsun Warlords of Liaodong: Korea was very vulnerable. That's it. This was a double edged sword. The Han could, and did, attack it. However, defending any acquisitions in Korea ...

Many good points, but just for the record, I think there is a eunuch tag for gender. Many of the people you mentioned like Bi Lan and Huang Hao were eunuchs.

Venus Blood Frontier. Excellent and deep conquest slg, similar in some way to Sengoku Rance but with more of a focus on unit composition and deployment. It's a porn game, but the porn is terrible and disgusting. I play these games for the gameplay unironically anyways. I love strategy conquest rpg g...

Going back to some earlier points made by DaoLunofShiji, I just can't bring myself to hate Sima Zhao or Sima Yan because, relatively speaking, they showed a lot of clemency toward many of their adversaries (probably not all though, admittedly). This is something I greatly admire in historical figure...

I don't exactly have one to share, but I think it is worth noting that JSTOR has generously decided to expand their free access of articles to 100 articles per month or something insane along these lines. This seems to be in response to COVID-19. This is probably a good time to get in some additiona...

Well, in my opinion at least, you have to first put yourself in the frame of mind of that time period. China as we know it today didn't exactly exist, at least not in the form it does today. And Korea, or even North Korea and South Korea as two separate countries, didn't exist either. The Korean pen...

Not surprisingly (I predicted as much in my earlier post), Trump is displeased by the net balance of recent SC decisionmaking, which now also includes stopping Trump from immediately dismantling DACA. Trump called the SC rulings shotgun blasts to the face. He also called for more conservative justic...