摘要
国际秩序的动荡与重建,新冷战的阴影,美国的政治争斗与欧洲的混乱成为时政领域中备受关注的热点。在公共思想界,自由主义的危机及其复兴前景,文化左派的困境,政治正确与科学研究的关系等议题成为2018年的焦点。
引文
*本文属于笔者2003年起所做的年度综述系列,议题的选择与评述受作者阅读与学识的局限,仅供参考。前十年的综述已结集收入《纷争的年代》(广西师大出版社,2013年)。2007至2017年度的述评报告曾在《学海》刊登。
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②Farhad Manjoo, “In 2018, Expect Chaos To Be the New Normal”, The New York Times, January 4, 2018, Page B1.
③“The meaning of the words of the year”, The Economist, December 6, 2018.
④Amit Chowdhry, “Google Assistant: Say ‘Tell Me Something Good’ To Brighten Your Day”, August 22, 2018 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2018/08/22/hey-google-tell-me-something-good/).
⑤“The world is fixated on the past”, The Economist, December 22, 2018.
⑥“Is the Liberal Order in Peril?”, Foreign Affairs Online (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ask-the-experts/liberal-order-peril).
⑦Richard N. Haass, “Liberal World Order, R.I.P.”, Project Syndicate, March 21, 2018.
⑧David E. Sanger, “Superpower and Upstart: Sometimes It Ends Well”, The New York Times, January 23, 2011, Page WK1.
⑨Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017; 格雷厄姆·艾利森《注定一战:中美能避免修昔底德陷阱吗?》,陈定定、傅强译,上海人民出版社,2019年。
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(12)Joseph Nye, “The Two Sides of American Exceptionalism”, Project Syndicate, September 4, 2018; Jeffrey D. Sachs, “From Exceptionalism to Internationalism”, in A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism Hardcover,Columbia University Press, 2018, Chapter 1.
(13)“Vice President Mike Pence’s Remarks on the Administration’s Policy Towards China”, October 4, 2018 (https://www.hudson.org/events/1610-vice-president-mike-pence-s-remarks-on-the-administration-s-policy-towards-china102018).
(14)Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner, “The China Reckoning: How Beijing Defied American Expectations”, Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2018 Issue.
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(16)James Curran, “How America’s Foreign Policy Establishment Got China Wrong”, The National Interest, December 17, 2018.
(17)Michael Lind, “America vs. Russia and China: Welcome to Cold War II”, The National Interest, Number 155, May/Jun, 2018.
(18)Michael Pompeo, “Restoring the Role of the Nation-State in the Liberal International Order”, December 4, 2018 (https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2018/12/287770.htm).
(19)“A liberal world order to fight for” (the Part V of “Reinventing Liberalism for the 21st Century”), The Economist, September 15, 2018, pp. 52-54.
(20)Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, “Isolated Leader Sees ‘a War Every Day’”, The New York Times, December 23, 2018, Page A1.
(21)Sarah Ellison, “Meet Melania Trump’s enforcer. It’s not her husband”, The Washington Post, December 10, 2018.
(22)Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Henry Holt and Company, 2018; Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House, Gallery Books, 2018; Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, Simon & Schuster, 2018.
(23)Anonymous Senior Administration Official, “The Quiet Resistance Inside the Trump Administration”, The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2018, Page A23.
(24)Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Eileen Sullivan, “Fingers Point, Denials Spread And Fury Rises”, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2018, Page A1.
(25)Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, chapter 30.
(26)Edward Luce, “The devil’s workshop: Bob Woodward on Trump’s chaotic White House”, Financial Times, September 11, 2018.
(27)Michael Mandelbaum, “The Trump Presidency, Year Two”, The American Interest, December 26, 2018.
(28)David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, Harper, 2018.
(29)Ross Douthat and David Frum, “Has the U.S. Become a ‘Trumpocracy’”, The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2018.
(30)Angel Jaramillo Torres and Marc Benjamin Sable, eds., Trump and Political Philosophy: Leadership, Statesmanship, and Tyranny,Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; Marc Benjamin Sable and Angel Jaramillo Torres, eds., Trump and Political Philosophy: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Civic Virtue, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
(31)(33)Susan B. Glasser, “Is Optimism Dead in the Trump Era?” The New Yorker, January 4, 2019.
(32)Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, “Isolated Leader Sees ‘a War Every Day’”, The New York Times, December 23, 2018, Page A1.
(34)Richard N. Haass, “Europe in Disarray”, Project Syndicate, December 13, 2018.
(35)Marc Champion, “Disarray in Europe and U.S. Leaves a Hole Where ‘the West’ Was”, Bloomberg, December 16, 2018.
(36)Gideon Rachman, “Macron protests show that leading France is an impossible job”, Financial Times, December 10, 2018.
(37)“Letter from M. Emmanuel Macron to the French people” (https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2019/01/13/letter-to-the-french-people-from-emmanuel-macron.en), January 13, 2019.
(38)Susan B. Glasser, “How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe”, The New Yorker, December 24 & 31, 2018 Issue.
(39)Timothy Garton Ash, “The Crisis of Europe: How the Union Came Together and Why It’s Falling Apart”, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2012 Issue.
(40)Carl Bildt, “The Battle for Germany’s Soul”, Project Syndicate, June 28, 2018.
(41)Yasmeen Serhan, “Angela Merkel, Escape Artist”, The Atlantic,July 3, 2018.
(42)Kate Connolly, “Merkel bows out to applause as CDU votes on successor”, The Guardian, December 7, 2018.
(43)Timothy Garton Ash, “Europe’s door is still open – but Britain will have to move fast”, The Guardian, November 17, 2018.
(44)Timothy Garton Ash, “My message to Europe: tell us you want Britain to stay”, The Guardian, December 13, 2018.
(45)“Times Letters: ‘German friends’ urge Britain to stay in EU”, The Times, January 18, 2019.
(46)“Il y a le feu à la Maison Europe”, le manifeste des patriotes européens, Libération, 25 janvier 2019.
(47)Bernard-Henri Lévy, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Elfriede Jelinek, Orhan Pamuk and 25 others, “Fight for Europe-or the wreckers will destroy it”, The Guardian, January 25, 2019.
(48)Daniel H. Cole and Aurelian Craiutu, “The many deaths of liberalism”, Aeon, June 28, 2018.
(49)Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress,Viking, 2018.
(50)John Gray, “Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals”, New Statesman, February 22, 2018.
(51)Steven Pinker, “Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on ‘Enlightenment Now,’ One Year Later”, Quillette, January 14, 2019.
(52)“A Manifesto for Renewing Liberalism”; “Reinventing Liberalism for the 21st Century”, The Economist, September 15, 2018, pp. 13-14; pp. 45-54.
(53)American Masters: Decoding Watson, Premiere date: January 2, 2019 (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/american-masters-decoding-watson-about/10863/).
(54)“Statement by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory addressing remarks by Dr. James D. Watson in ‘American Masters: Decoding Watson’”, January 11, 2019 (https://www.cshl.edu/statement-by-cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-addressing-remarks-by-dr-james-d-watson-in-american-masters-decoding-watson/).
(55)冷泉港声明的推特:https://twitter.com/cshl/status/1083765175017267201
(56)Elizabeth Kolbert, “There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It’s a Made-Up Label”, in The Race Issue, a special issue of National Geographic, April 2018 (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa).
(57)David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Oxford University Press, 2018.
(58)David Reich, “‘Race’ in The Age of Modern Genetics (How Genetics is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’)”, The New York Times, March 23, 2018, Page, SR1.
(59)Jenny Reardo and other 66 scientists and researchers, “How Not to Talk about Race and Genomics”, Buzzfeed, March 30, 2018.
(60)John Edward Terrell, “‘Plug and Play’ Genetics, Racial Migrations and Human History”, Scientific American, May 29, 2018; Andrew Sullivan, “Denying Genetics is Not Shutting Down Racism, It is Fueling it”, New York Magazine, March 30, 2018; Edward Burmila, “Scientific Racism Isn’t ‘Back’: It Never Went Away”, The Nation, April 6, 2018; Ian Holmes, “What Happens When Geneticists Talk Sloppily About Race”, The Atlantic, April 25, 2018.
(61)David Reich, “How to Talk about Race and Genomics”, The New York Times, March 30, 2018.
(62)Anemona Hartocollis, “Harvard Rates Asian-Americans As Less Likable, Plaintiffs Claim”, The New York Times, June 16, 2018, Page A1.
(63)Special Report, “Harvard on Trial”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 1, 2018 (https://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/Harvard-on-Trial/229).
(64)Nell Gluckman, “What’s New in Harvard’s Admissions Procedures: Explicit Instructions on Race”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 26, 2018.
(65)Anemona Hartocollis, “A Peek Behind the Ivy: How to Get Into Harvard”, The New York Times,Oct. 20, 2018, Page A1.
(66)Jeannie Suk Gersen, “Anti-Asian Bias, Not Affirmative Action, Is on Trial in the Harvard Case”, The New Yorker, October 11, 2018.
(67)Edward Humes, School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School? Harvest, 2004.
(68)Ryan Park, “The Last of the Tiger Parents”, The New York Times, June 24, 2018, Page SR1.
(69)休斯发表在Quillette的文章目录:https://quillette.com/author/coleman-cruz-hughes/
(70)http://intellectualdark.website/
(71)“What is The Intellectual Dark Web?” The Rubin Report, January 30, 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5HN-KT9rj0).
(72)Bari Weiss, “Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web”, The New York Times, May 8, 2018.
(73)Jacob Hamburger, “The ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Is Nothing New”, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 18, 2018.
(74)参见:“Leaders of The Intellectual Dark Web”: https://intellectualdarkweb.site/vanguards-of-the-intellectual-dark-web/
(75)“Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Eric Weinstein, and Dave Rubin LIVE!” The Rubin Report, June 29, 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PagNM_oxssE&t=328s).
(76)Daniel W. Drezner, “The Ideas Industry meets the intellectual dark web”, The Washington Post, May 11, 2018; Douglas Murray, “Inside the intellectual dark web”, The Spectator, February 21, 2018; Henry Farrell, “The ‘Intellectual Dark Web,’ explained: what Jordan Peterson has in common with the alt-right”, Vox, May 10, 2018; Amelia Lester, The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web, Politico Magazine, November/December 2018.
(77)Jacob Hamburger, “The ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Is Nothing New”, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 18, 2018.
(78)Kevin Shau, “The Intellectual Dark Web and Enlightened Discourse”, Medium, Sep 9, 2018.
(79)Jillian Kay Melchior, “Fake News Comes to Academia: How three scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on ‘grievance studies’”, The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 5, 2018.
(80)笔者曾撰文分析“索卡尔事件”:刘擎《后现代主义的困境》,载《二十一世纪》1998年6月号。
(81)Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose, “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship”, Areo, October 2, 2018.
(82)Tom Bartlett, “Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas.’ Cue the Outcry”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2018 issue.
(83)https://www.holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-prize/prize-winners/cass-r-sunstein
(84)http://www.templetonprize.org/currentwinner.