Gao Mingxuan, a towering figure in Chinese criminal law, died on February 26, 2026, aged 98. Beginning with his role in drafting the PRC's first criminal code, this episode unpacks the long debate between the four-element and three-tier theories of crime—and asks how state penal power should be exercised and citizens' rights protected.
What can one person do when the state uses textbooks to reshape memory of war? This episode follows historian Saburō Ienaga's three lawsuits over 32 years against revisions to accounts of Japan's wartime aggression, the Nanjing Massacre, and Unit 731, examining the boundaries among state screening, academic freedom, and responsibility for war.
How Kevin Warsh went from Wall Street prodigy to Fed chair nominee, and what his policy instincts may mean for the global economy.
A detailed guide to installing ClawdBot on Windows.
Focusing on birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, this episode starts from the Supreme Court's then-recent procedural ruling, Wong Kim Ark, and the doctrine's history. It traces how the Trump administration challenged the principle through an executive order and litigation, and examines the contest between jus soli and jus sanguinis.