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It’s Complicated Between the U.S. and Turkey

| March 30, 2022 | Blog Contributor

It’s Complicated Between the U.S. and Turkey
Not all allies can be long-term allies. Former years of unified strategy in the War Against Terror era are long gone. Approaching is Turkey’s decoupling from the West. Once considered a valuable ally to the U.S., Turkey no longer represents liberal democratic ideals...
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Abigail Aycock
Abigail Aycock is a current senior studying international relations and economics at Wheaton College. She was selected as a Spring 2022 Faith and Public Life student blog contributor.

Warning Signs: US Family Policy and China’s Tragic Legacy

| March 30, 2022 | Blog Contributor

Warning Signs: US Family Policy and China’s Tragic Legacy
The damage has been done. China is trying to reverse its one-child policies, but the superpower’s social fabric has been permanently frayed by the destructive ideology it codified in 1980. We have yet to observe the full effect anti-family ideology has had on China’s...
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Anna Claire Noblitt
Anna Claire Noblitt is a recent graduate of Samford University, where she served as chair of the Faith and Public Life Executive Council. Anna Claire will continue her education at George Mason University and hopes to become an economics professor and policy researcher.

Something Must Give

| February 14, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Something Must Give
“When we fight you, we make sure you can’t get away.” This is the message then-revolutionary leader Mao Tse-tung wanted his enemies to hear. Yet Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalists, found this rival of his to be a fool. A military man with rigid,...
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Alexander Hale
Alexander Hale was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior business fellow majoring in finance, political science, and philosophy at Baylor University, while also pursuing a great texts minor within the Baylor honors program.

China Holds No Cards

| December 11, 2019 | Blog Contributor

China Holds No Cards
It was 2 a.m., and my father and I had finally settled down for our flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Bleary-eyed, I was about to drift off to sleep, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I hadn’t realized it, but there was a Chinese teenager more or less my age sitting...
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Alexander Hale
Alexander Hale was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior business fellow majoring in finance, political science, and philosophy at Baylor University, while also pursuing a great texts minor within the Baylor honors program.

Confucius and the Right of Resistance

| November 25, 2019 | Blog Contributor

Confucius and the Right of Resistance
From the Magna Carta to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau, Western tradition is saturated with the idea that individuals have the right to resist tyrannical oppression. Our American heroes, history, and political attitudes make the challenging underdog a...
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Katherine Cvancara
Katherine Cvancara was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a senior at George Fox University where she studies biology and political science.