Mitch Bernard
mkbernard.bsky.social
Mitch Bernard
@mkbernard.bsky.social
Political economist, retired Japan specialist, inveterate language learner, cinephile & traveller
In a China-obsessed US, Dan Wong’s new book Breakneck is making waves. It echoes the 1980s wave of books on Japan’s rise, warning of threats & lessons for America. The parallels are striking, contrasting “ideal-type” societies — engineering vs. legalistic — to feed the same old American anxieties.
September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pour les amoureux de littérature, la sortie du troisième tome de la trilogie de Leïla Slimani, c’est de la lecture idéale pour profiter des beaux jours !
April 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How I arrived on Blue Sky
January 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This depends on your approach to the study of 'politics' and the level of the students. For upper-level undergrads as well as grad students I would use assets.cambridge.org/97811089/258...
January 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
2024 has been good though not great year for world cinema. Now we'll enter the period where the American film establishment unilaterally gets to put their imprimatur on what we've all seen. Whatever they decide, to me, director Payal Kapadia's complex gem was clearly the year's best
December 26, 2024 at 11:18 PM