Book Excerpt for the Day

    Call it nationalism, call it patriotism, call it my swelling national pride banging against the gate, whatever you call it, I am unabashedly proud of our great leaders in Beijing, proud that they have chosen to invest so much of our country's treasure in so many struggling Western economies in order to bring the rest of the world up to the same high standards of our great Chinese State.  It is right and it is just that we do so.


(from Madmen at the Tombs, by Ilow Martin Roque)

3*/10.  The full review is here.