The New Yorker - USA (2022-05-16)

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 51 Pittsburgh Institute, or SCUPI. This kind of program is known as a hybrid: Chi- nese engineerin ...

52 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 to make statements that question na- tional sovereignty. I responded in the comments section: It ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 53 United States, and a number of students asked for help signing up for the same service, but I d ...

investigation, but officials communi- cated their findings to him. In our meet- ing, Chyu told me that the officials were satisf ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 55 mal Farm,” but I had decided to delay Orwell for a week, until I could gauge the group’s dynami ...

56 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 because that’s the principle of the gaokao, the national college-entrance examina- tion. When a ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 57 COMICSTRIPBY EMILY FLAKE ...

58 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 of 2019 he had heard only that I had been reported. John didn’t post on Weibo, and he hadn’t see ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 59 long-term contract, but he declined, with- out explanation. Recently, I wrote to Chyu, and he r ...

60 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 ILLUSTRATION BY DADU SHIN FICTION ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 61 O ne morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown. Th ...

62 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 their faces, to let his gaze linger in ways that could be misconstrued. Almost as disturbing as ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 63 as a question to be confirmed, being confirmed, apparently happening. It was on the television. ...

64 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 start to accept the situation, and to re­ ceive what his father was holding, what was obviously ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 65 his relief, a relief that washed over him and drenched him with defeat, he knew that he would b ...

not have permitted it to be otherwise, that just by being here Anders was tak- ing something from his father, taking his dignity ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 67 edly, really, that he started to cry, and he wept so hard and so loud that it sur- prised him, ...

68 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 THE CRITICS BOOKS YOU’RE TALKING NONSENSE How queer was Ludwig Wittgenstein? BY NIKHILKRISHNAN N ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 69 Philosophy appeared on the right-hand pages of the wartime journals; more intimate confessions, ...

70 THENEWYORKER,M AY16, 2022 although Russell is dubious about its contents. Meanwhile, Wittgenstein sur- prises everyone by ...